intestinal obstruction

1. 1.

   blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel

   Synonymsileus

   Broaderobstructionenteropathy

Questions about intestinal obstruction

What does intestinal obstruction mean?

intestinal obstruction means "blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel".

What is another word for intestinal obstruction?

Close synonyms include ileus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is intestinal obstruction a common word?

intestinal obstruction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.