volvulus

Learned borrowing from Late Latin volvulus (“tending to roll”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɒl.vjʊl.əs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɑl.vjəl.əs/

volvulus (countable and uncountable, plural volvuli or volvuluses)

1. (medicine) Obstruction of the bowel in which a loop of bowel has abnormally twisted on itself.
   • 2015 July 1, Pierre Goubault et al., “Gallbladder torsion within incisional hernia: an original cholecystitis”, in SpringerPlus‎^[1], volume 4, →DOI:

     Only one case of gallbladder volvulus within an incisional hernia has been previously described, but it was a parastomal herniation (Rosenblum et al. 2013).

• volvulate (verb), volvulated (adjective), volvulize (verb), volvulized (adjective)

• detorsion, torsion

Learned borrowing from Late Latin volvulus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋolʋulus/, [ˈʋo̞lʋulus̠]
• Rhymes: -olʋulus
• Syllabification^(key): vol‧vu‧lus
• Hyphenation^(key): vol‧vu‧lus

volvulus

1. (pathology) volvulus (medical condition)

• suolen virhekiertymä
• suolisolmu (colloquial)

From volvō (“I roll”) +‎ -ulus (“tending to, inclined to”).

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɔl.vu.lus]

volvulus (feminine volvula, neuter volvulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (New Latin) tending to roll

   Onchocerca volvulus

First/second-declension adjective.

• → English: volvulus (learned)

Borrowed from French volvulus, from Late Latin volvulus.

volvulus n (uncountable)

1. volvulus