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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

A volvulus is a loop of the bowel whose nose has twisted on itself.[1] The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary defines volvulus slightly differently as "abnormal twisting of the intestine causing obstruction," which adds obstruction in the definition, and would be more clinically significant term.[2]

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  1. Medical Terminology Systems: A Body Systems Approach, 2005
  2. The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary. "KMLE Medical Dictionary Definition of volvulus".


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