Terminology question...

Jetstream77 · #1 Dec 4, 2005, 11:30 PM

This is a little weird but does anyone know what "pathological distention of the bowel" means?

RickJ · Dec 5, 2005, 02:36 AM

That's a fancy term for a stretched bowel...claimed to be a possible consequence of holding in your flatulence (farts).

Really.

See here and here.

dimples · Dec 5, 2005, 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Jetstream77

This is a little weird but does anyone know what "pathological distention of the bowel" means?

I would not say it is a fancy term. If it had been, there would not be a PATHOLOGICAL word before it. It means that your intestines are distended. Reasons maybe due to inflammation, infection, lack of some cells(Plexus) which makes it not fuctional.

RickJ · Dec 5, 2005, 03:11 AM

By fancy I meant medical.

Distension means enlarged. Pathological means medical.

So "pathological distention of the bowel" means "enlarged bowel" to the non-medical folk.



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