ileus

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing 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

• 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) (chángzǔsè)

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

  Ancient Greek: εἰλεός m (eileós)

• Kazakh: ішектік бітеліс (ışektık bıtelıs)
• 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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īleus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪlɛu̯s]

Noun

ileus m inan

1. ileus

   Synonym: střevní neprůchodnost

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

See also

• zácpa

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /iˈleus/ [iˈle.ʊs]
• Rhymes: -eus
• Syllabification: i‧le‧us

Noun

ileus (uncountable)

1. (pathology) ileus (disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the gastrointestinal tract from any cause)

Further reading

• “ileus”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.ɫe.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.le.us]

Noun

īleus m (genitive īleī); second declension

1. (New Latin) ileus, intestinal obstruction

   īleus bīliāris ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	īleus	īleī
genitive	īleī	īleōrum
dative	īleō	īleīs
accusative	īleum	īleōs
ablative	īleō	īleīs
vocative	īlee	īleī

Derived terms

• subīleus

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French iléus.

Noun

ileus n (plural ileusuri)

1. ileus

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	ileus	ileusul	ileusuri	ileusurile
genitive-dative	ileus	ileusului	ileusuri	ileusurilor
vocative	ileusule		ileusurilor