ILEUM • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Ileum

... order to feel for the indurated part. Scarcely had I introduced my hand, than an attack of the pain came on, and a portion of the intestines was protruded through the wound, which was immediately replaced by my assistant. On continuing the examination, I discovered in a transverse portion of the ileum, a foreign substance, just where the hardened intestine was to be felt. I drew the intestine out, in order to examine it more minutely. The intestine was neither inflamed nor expanded, but it contained in ...

— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various