Sentence examples for intussusception from inspiring English sources

Intussusception is a condition encountered in the first and second years of life in which one section of intestine doubles (invaginates) into the section next distant from the stomach.

Sometimes the intussusception is eliminated by administration of a barium enema.

The first such vaccine, called RotaShield, was approved for use in the United States in 1998 and withdrawn a year later after it was linked with rare cases of intussusception, or bowel obstruction.

I said would I be covered for intussusception, a folding of the bowel?

We rushed to the emergency room at Children's Hospital, where a new surgical resident examined him, ordered X-rays and blood tests and made the correct diagnosis: an intussusception, an intestinal obstruction.

In 1999, for instance, doctors reported cases of intussusception, a sometimes deadly intestinal disorder, in a few infants given a new vaccine against rotavirus.