Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ileus

Ileus , noun

[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed}, {not transcribed}, from {not transcribed} to roll up.]

(Medicine) A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction. It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac passion or iliac passion.