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‖ volvulus Path.|ˈvɒlvjʊləs|
[med. or mod.L., f. L. volvĕre to turn, twist.]
A form of intestinal obstruction caused by a twisting or knotting of the bowel. † Also in pl. volvuli.
1679J. Smith Eng. Improv. Reviv'd 247 When the Entrals are stopt that they cannot void, it is the Volvuli or wringing of the Guts. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I. s.v. Ileum, Sometimes the Coats being doubled inward, the upper part of an Intestine sinks or falls with the lower, which makes the Iliack-Passion, or Volvulus. 1755A. Monro in Ess. Phys. & Lit. (1756) II. 353 Remarks on..Intussusceptio,..Inflammation, and Volvulus of the Intestines. 1799Med. Jrnl. I. 429 Pneumonic Inflammation,..Peritoneal Inflammation,..Volvulus. 1846F. Brittan tr. Malgaigne's Oper. Surg. 396 The exact seat of the foreign body, volvulus, or strangulation. 1885Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. I. 22/1 Volvulus is sometimes induced by violent muscular exertions, as in jumping or lifting. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 815 Under the general name ‘volvulus’ are included two distinct modes of obstruction. In one the bowel is so twisted about its mesenteric axis that it becomes occluded; in the other form two suitable coils of intestine are so intertwined or knotted together as also to cause an obstruction in their canals.
b. With a: An instance of this.
1758J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 187 There might be a Volvulus. Ibid. 189 A Volvulus may be the Consequence of that Inflammation, and of the antiperistaltick Motion that succeeds it. 1887Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. IV. 156/2 Once a volvulus has become fairly established, it cannot spontaneously relieve itself. 1891F. Taylor Pract. Med. (ed. 2) 587 Occasionally the small intestine forms a volvulus of the same kind as that described in the sigmoid. |