volvulusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

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

名詞

volvulus (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 volvuli または 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).

関連する語

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

参考

• detorsion, torsion

Further reading

• volvulus on Wikipedia.

Latin

語源

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

発音

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvol.vu.lus/, [ˈvɔlvulus]

形容詞

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

1. (New Latin) Tending to roll.

   Onchocerca volvulus

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective.

派生した語

• → English: volvulus