Volvulusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

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

名詞

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, 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 (adjective), volvulize (verb), volvulized (adjective)

参考

• detorsion, torsion

発音

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

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 (learned)