Associations to the word «Volvulus»

Wiktionary

VOLVULUS, noun. Obstruction of the bowel in which a loop of bowel has abnormally twisted on itself.

Dictionary definition

VOLVULUS, noun. Abnormal twisting of the intestines (usually in the area of the ileum or sigmoid colon) resulting in intestinal obstruction.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope