(n.) 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, / iliac, passion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combination of an over-distended uterus caused by a multiple-fetus pregnancy with therapeutic bed-rest may cause mechanical ileus.
(2) Two of the ten patients developed mild symptoms of (sub)ileus that could be treated conservatively.
(3) The diagnosis of a small intestinal obstruction was made prenatally between the 31st and 36th week of pregnancy in 7 patients with neonatal ileus.
(4) Compared with conventional surgery, the advantages of laparoscopic cholecystectomy are well known: the entire peritoneal cavity is explored; the lack of postoperative ileus makes it possible to resume normal feeding, and hence normal activity, after a short interruption; systemic and parietal complications are less frequent, but the biliary tract complication rate is higher, probably in relation to the operator's training.
(5) The patient subsequently developed paralytic ileus with lesions of the intestinal wall, probably based on ischemia as a result of this arteritis.
(6) Postoperative ileus, nausea, vomiting, and urinary retention were the most common surgical complications.
(7) Adrenoceptor blockade in untreated rats reduced the ileus in response to peritoneal irritation to approximately the same degree as treatment with capsaicin.
(8) Their courses were characterized by significant early postoperative hemodynamic compromise, abdominal distention, ileus, fever, and episodes of late vascular instability associated with hypocalcemia.
(9) Three patients with chronic diarrhoea, paralytic ileus and malabsorption are reported.
(10) Ileus was detected by means of general abdominal sonography from three of 14 of the authors' own patients from whom negative findings had been recorded by X-ray examinations.
(11) The goal of treating postoperative ileus must be decompression of the intestine in order to prevent further development of the disease.
(12) Six cases of lung cancer combined with the disease which has needed semi-emergency operation, two cases of unstable angina, two of ileus due to colon cancer, one of impending rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm and one of purulent cholecystitis with cholelithiasis, were discussed.
(13) As in other published cases of ileus associated with pheochromocytoma, high urinary catecholamine concentrations were found in our patient and the tumor resected at surgery was large.
(14) Patients were evaluated for length of hospital stay, duration of postoperative ileus, adequacy of intraoperative intestinal decompression, gastric dilatation, and operative complications.
(15) Of the remaining 16 patients with unresolved meconium ileus, nine were treated with laparotomy and ileostomy, and one with laparotomy and T-tube irrigation.
(16) Preventive intestinal intubation for ileus prophylaxis in cases of diffuse peritonitis and extended adhesion ileus had often been discredited for the technically demanding and thus time-consuming technique involved.
(17) The most frequent complication was paralytic intestinal ileus.
(18) Aetiopathogenesis, diagnosis as well as typical and atypical courses are described and discussed with regard to 50 patients with gallstone ileus.
(19) He developed stress ulcers, pulmonary thromboembolism, sepsis, paralytic ileus and bilateral ureteral fistula.
(20) The duration of epidural analgesia varied between 1 and 15 days depending on the intensity of symptoms (pain, ileus).
Pileus
Definition:
(n.) A kind of skull cap of felt.
(n.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.
(n.) The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main accumulation of mannitol was in the pileus and stipe of the sporophore and was accompanied by a decrease in the soluble protein content of these tissues.
(2) The metacercariae did not grow in the above mentioned hosts at 12 degrees C, but 590 microns long metacercariae developed within 22 days in laboratory-reared A. tonsa at 18 degrees C. The ctenophore Pleurobrachia pileus and the holoplanktonic polychaete Tomopteris helgolandica, which were found to be naturally infected with metacercariae of L. excisum, may act as transport hosts.
(3) Symptoms consist of reddening, swelling, and itching, at the sites of contact with pileus cuticle mucilage of all five species.
(4) Pore layer tissues (tested for S. americanus and S. luteus) also produced strong reactions, as did pileus trama (tested for S. luteus).