volvulus

volvulus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin volvulus, from Latin volvo.

Noun

volvulus (countable and uncountable, plural volvuli or volvuluses)

1. Obstruction of the bowel in which a loop of bowel has abnormally twisted on itself.
   • 2015 July 1, Pierre Goubault et al., “Gallbladder torsion within incisional hernia: an original cholecystitis”, in SpringerPlus‎, volume 4, DOI:10.1186/s40064-015-1112-6:

     Only one case of gallbladder volvulus within an incisional hernia has been previously described, but it was a parastomal herniation (Rosenblum et al. 2013).

Translations

twist in a loop of the bowel

Portuguese: vólvulo m

Further reading

• volvulus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia