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Intussusception vs Volvulus - What's the difference?

intussusception | volvulus |

As nouns the difference between intussusception and volvulus

is that intussusception is absorption while volvulus is obstruction of the bowel in which a loop of bowel has abnormally twisted on itself.

intussusception

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (rare) Absorption.
  • (medicine) The invagination of one portion of a tubular anatomical structure (especially intestines or blood vessels) within the next.

    • volvulus

    English

    Noun

    (volvuli)
  • Obstruction of the bowel in which a loop of bowel has abnormally twisted on itself.

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "volvulus")