Ileus vs Null - What's the difference?
ileus | null |
(medicine, pathology, zoology) Partial or complete obstruction of the intestines, especially the ileum, causing colic, vomiting, constipation and often fever and dehydration.
* 1796 , , Volume II: Classes of Diseases, IV: Diseases of Association, Ordo III: Retrograde Associate Motions, Genus II: Catenated with sensitive motions,
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* 1921 , Western Osteopathic Association, et al., The Western osteopath , Volume 16,
* 2002 , Douglas H. Slatter, Textbook of Small Animal Surgery , Volume 1,
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between ileus and null
is that ileus is (medicine|pathology|zoology) partial or complete obstruction of the intestines, especially the ileum, causing colic, vomiting, constipation and often fever and dehydration while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.ileus
English
(wikipedia ileus)Noun
(es)- The perpetual vomiting in ileus is caused in like manner by the defective excitement of the sensorial power of association by the bowel, which is torpid during the intervals of pain; and the stomach sympathizes with it.
- 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.
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- You must expect to lose from 40% to 60% of all acute post operative ileuses , and about 20% of your sub-acute cases.
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- Thus, ileus also has potential detrimental effects in sterile peritonitis by providing a source and mechanism for entry of bacteria into the peritoneal cavity.
- Other factors commonly encountered in animals with peritonitis may also predispose to adynamic ileus .
Derived terms
* adynamic ileus * dynamic ileus * hyperdynamic ileus * spastic ileus * mechanical ileus * meconium ileus * occlusive ileus * paralytic ileus * ileus subpartaSee also
* volvulusReferences
* *null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.