Dictionary

volvulus en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈvɒl.vjʊl.əs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈvɑl.vjəl.əs/ (General-American)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin volvulus (“tending to roll”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Obstruction of the bowel in which a loop of bowel has abnormally twisted on itself.
   • Only one case of gallbladder volvulus within an incisional hernia has been previously described, but it was a parastomal herniation (Rosenblum et al. 2013). 2015 July 1, Pierre Goubault et al., “Gallbladder torsion within incisional hernia: an original cholecystitis”, in SpringerPlus, volume 4, →DOI:

Forms

Relateds

volvulate · volvulated · torsion · detorsion · volvulize · volvulized

Translations (12)

fr volvulus (twist in a loop of the bowel) · pl skręt jelit (twist in a loop of the bowel) · de Darmverschlingung (twist in a loop of the bowel) · fi volvulus (twist in a loop of the bowel) · fi suolen virhekiertymä (twist in a loop of the bowel) · bg преплитане на червата (twist in a loop of the bowel) · pl skręt kiszek (twist in a loop of the bowel) · ro ocluzie intestinală (twist in a loop of the bowel) · de Darmverdrehung (twist in a loop of the bowel) · hu bélcsavarodás (twist in a loop of the bowel) · pt vólvulo (twist in a loop of the bowel) · ro obstrucție intestinală (twist in a loop of the bowel)