Bowel Obstruction
Key Facts
Abbreviation
BO
Pronunciation
/baʊəl əbˈstrəkʃən/
Category
Medical
Related Field
Physiology
Examples in Context
- The boy was suffering from a bowel obstruction and he died.
- Therefore, cancers of the left colon are more likely to cause partial or complete bowel obstruction.
- Objective To investigate the experiences on the diagnosis and treatment of early postoperative inflammatory in small bowel obstruction.
- Small bowel obstruction is usually acute and is due most often to external herniae, inguinal and femoral.
- Less common is bowel obstruction, which may develop due to adhesions or scar tissue from the surgery.
Other meanings of BO
Bolivia
Regional
Tibetan
Regional
Branch Office
Business
Back Office
Computing
Business Objects
Computing
Basic Object
Computing
Back Orifice
Computing
Binary Output
Computing
Belief Optimization
Academic
Blacked Out
Medical