ileus

IPA: ɪɫiʌs

(medicine, modern usage) Disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the gastrointestinal tract, due to failure of peristalsis.
(medicine, broad definition, now rare) Disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the gastrointestinal tract from any cause.

Examples of "ileus" in Sentences

The bowel can be reconnected once your child's ileus is gone.
Most infants with meconium ileus have a disease called cystic fibrosis.
If your baby needs surgery for meconium ileus, she'll have a bowel resectionand ileostomyplacement.
However, these patients are prone to ileus formation secondary to the anticholinergic effects of glutethimide.
The earliest signs of meconium ileus are abdominal distention (a swollen belly), bilious (green) vomit and no passage of meconium.
When ileus comes on in a case of strangury, they prove fatal in seven days, unless, fever supervening, there be a copious discharge of urine.
If a doctor suspects that your child has a meconium ileus, he won't be given anything to eat or drink and will be fed through an intravenous (IV) line, a small tube that's inserted into a vein.
Thus, CFTR -/- homozygotes displayed defective chloride transport in epithelia of airways and intestines, failure to thrive, meconium ileus, and pathological alterations of gastrointestinal glands.
However, the firm reiterated an "outperform" rating on Adolor, saying it expects the companies to gain approval of the drug for a different indication, postoperative ileus, by the FDA action date of Nov. 9.
Meconium ileus is a bowel obstruction that occurs when the meconium in your child's intestine is even thicker and stickier than normal meconium, creating a blockage in a part of the small intestine called the ileum.