Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Intestinal obstruction causing colic, vomiting, and constipation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, severe colic, attended with stercoraceous vomiting, due to intestinal obstruction: also applied loosely to severe colic of other origin. Also called
ileac or iliac passion. - noun Same as
ileum .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction. It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also
ileac passion oriliac passion .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine, pathology, zoology Partial or complete obstruction of the
intestines , especially theileum , causingcolic , vomiting, constipation and often fever anddehydration .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The bowel can be reconnected once your child's ileus is gone.
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Meconium ileus is a bowel obstruction that occurs when the meconium in your child's intestine is even thicker and stickier than normal meconium, creating a blockage in a part of the small intestine called the ileum.
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However, these patients are prone to ileus formation secondary to the anticholinergic effects of glutethimide.
Loads 2010
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Most infants with meconium ileus have a disease called cystic fibrosis.
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The earliest signs of meconium ileus are abdominal distention (a swollen belly), bilious (green) vomit and no passage of meconium.
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If a doctor suspects that your child has a meconium ileus, he won't be given anything to eat or drink and will be fed through an intravenous (IV) line, a small tube that's inserted into a vein.
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If your baby needs surgery for meconium ileus, she'll have a bowel resectionand ileostomyplacement.
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Thus, CFTR -/- homozygotes displayed defective chloride transport in epithelia of airways and intestines, failure to thrive, meconium ileus, and pathological alterations of gastrointestinal glands.
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information 2007
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When ileus comes on in a case of strangury, they prove fatal in seven days, unless, fever supervening, there be a copious discharge of urine.
Aphorisms 2007
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However, the firm reiterated an "outperform" rating on Adolor, saying it expects the companies to gain approval of the drug for a different indication, postoperative ileus, by the FDA action date of Nov. 9.
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