ILEUS
\ˈɪlɪəs], \ˈɪlɪəs], \ˈɪ_l_ɪ__ə_s]\
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blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel
By Princeton University
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blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A disease, characterized by deep-seated pain of the abdomen, stercoraceous vomiting, and obstinate constipation. It is occasioned by hernia or other obstruction to the passage of the faeces through a part of the intestinal canal, Enterostenosis. The term Ileus has been applied to various affections- to simple nervous colic, intussusception, and to strangulation of the small intestine, etc. Various remedies have been employed; - the majority for the purpose of procuring alvine evacuations, - as purgatives, in draught, pill, or glyster; suppositories, tobacco glysters; pure mercury; leaden bullets; antispasmodics and narcotics; blisters to the epigastrium; ice by the mouth, or injected into the rectum. Some of these have, occasionally, succeeded, - especially the tobacco glyster, and ice to the tumour, where the disease has been occasioned by strangulated hernia. It is very dangerous.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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