ileus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īleus, from Ancient Greek εἰλεός (eileós, “intestinal obstruction”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪliəs/
• Rhymes: -ɪliəs

Noun

ileus (plural ileuses or ilei)

1. (medicine, modern usage) Disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the gastrointestinal tract, due to failure of peristalsis.
2. (medicine, broad definition, now rare) Disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the gastrointestinal tract from any cause.
   • 1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, Volume II: Classes of Diseases, IV: Diseases of Association, Ordo III: Retrograde Associate Motions, Genus II: Catenated with sensitive motions,

     The perpetual vomiting in ileus is caused in like manner by the defective excitement of the sensorial power of association by the bowel, which is torpid during the intervals of pain; and the stomach sympathizes with it.

   • 1849, Hippocrates, translated by Francis Adams, Aphorisms:

     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.

   • 1921, Western Osteopathic Association et al., The Western osteopath, volume 16, page 20:

     You must expect to lose from 40% to 60% of all acute post operative ileuses, and about 20% of your sub-acute cases.

   • 2002, Douglas H. Slatter, Textbook of Small Animal Surgery, volume 1, page 420:

     Thus, ileus also has potential detrimental effects in sterile peritonitis by providing a source and mechanism for entry of bacteria into the peritoneal cavity.
     Other factors commonly encountered in animals with peritonitis may also predispose to adynamic ileus.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• adynamic ileus
• dynamic ileus
• hyperdynamic ileus
• ileus subparta
• mechanical ileus
• meconium ileus
• occlusive ileus
• paralytic ileus
• spastic ileus

Translations

obstruction of the intestines

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: преплитане на червата (preplitane na červata)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腸梗阻／肠梗阻 (zh) (chánggěngzǔ), 腸阻塞／肠阻塞 (zh) (chángzǔsāi)

• Czech: ileus (cs) m
• Finnish: suolitukos (fi)
• French: iléus (fr) m
• German: Darmverschluss (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: εἰλεός m (eileós)

• Polish: niedrożność jelit f
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: кише́чная непроходи́мость f (kišéčnaja neproxodímostʹ), за́ворот кишо́к (ru) m (závorot kišók)
• Spanish: íleo m
• Swedish: tarmvred n, tarmstopp n, ileus n

See also

• volvulus

References

• Dorland's Pocket Medical Dictionary, 22nd edition, W. B. Saunders, 1977
• “ileus” in The Concise Oxford Dictionary, seventh edition, Oxford University Press, 1982.
• “ileus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Lieus

Czech

Noun

ileus m inan

1. ileus

Declension

Declension of ileus (hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	ileus	iley
genitive	ileu	ileů
dative	ileu	ileům
accusative	ileus	iley
vocative	ilee	iley
locative	ileu	ileech
instrumental	ileem	iley

Further reading

• “ileus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “ileus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French iléus.

Noun

ileus n (plural ileusuri)

1. ileus

Declension

Declension of ileus

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ileus	ileusul	(niște) ileusuri	ileusurile
genitive/dative	(unui) ileus	ileusului	(unor) ileusuri	ileusurilor
vocative	ileusule		ileusurilor