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Digestive System Diseases > Gastrointestinal Diseases > Intestinal Diseases > Intestinal Obstruction > Ileus

Preferred term

Ileus  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • coord IM with specific precoord intestinal dis (IM); PARALYTIC ILEUS see INTESTINAL PSEUDO-OBSTRUCTION is also available

Scope note

  • A condition caused by the lack of intestinal PERISTALSIS or INTESTINAL MOTILITY without any mechanical obstruction. This interference of the flow of INTESTINAL CONTENTS often leads to INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION. Ileus may be classified into postoperative, inflammatory, metabolic, neurogenic, and drug-induced.

History note

  • 2004; use INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION 1975-2003

In other languages

  • ileus

    Finnish

  • ileus non specificatus
  • määrittämätön ileus
  • suolentukkeuma
  • Ileus

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D045823

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