intussusception

(in’tus-us-ep’shun) [L. in’tus within + suscip’ere to receive]. The invagination or in digitation of a portion of the intestine into an adjacent portion. There are four varieties: ieocecal, in which the ileum and the ileocecal valve pa into the cecum and colon; colic, in which the large intestine is prolapsed into itself; ileal, in which the small intestine is invaginated into itself; and deocolic, in which the ileum into the ileocecal valve. The symptoms of the condition are a frequent desire to evacuate the bowels, pain, tenesmus, with the pa age of small bloody or mucous stools, vomiting, the development of a sausage-shaped swelling in the abdominal region, with the accumulation of a ma of soft feces. retrograde i., the invagination of a lower part of the bowel into the higher.