volvulus in a sentence

Examples

1. This is a surgical emergency that requires urgent resection of gangrenous bowel and untwisting of the volvulus.
2. He died on 8 October 1946 undergoing surgery for a volvulus at the NisshindM
   hospital in Ueda.
3. The other two are " Mansonella streptocerca and Onchocerca volvulus " ( causes river blindness ).
4. These include abdominal pain, torsion of the bowel ( transverse colon volvulus ) or shortness of breath.
5. The combined type of gastric volvulus is a rare form in which the stomach twists mesentericoaxially and organoaxially.
6. His death was determined to be as a result of a twisted intestinal tract ( intestinal volvulus ).
7. Patients with a pre-transplant diagnosis of volvulus were found to possess a lower risk of mortality.
8. Onchocerca volvulus is a white worm only 1.5 centimeters ( . 6 of an inch ) long.
9. Otto died unexpectedly on 11 October 1916, due to a volvulus ( an obstruction of the bowel ).
10. In cases of malrotation complicated with volvulus, it demonstrates a corkscrew appearance of the distal duodenum and jejunum.