volvulus
nounUK /ˈvɒl.vjʊl.əs/ · US /ˈvɑl.vjəl.əs/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Late Latin volvulus (“tending to roll”).
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Medicine, Sciences 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:
- Related terms
- volvulate, volvulated, volvulize, volvulized, detorsion, torsion