The story
- Late Latin · learned borrowing fromvolvulus“tending to roll”
- English todayvolvulus
Learned borrowing from Late Latin volvulus (“tending to roll”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
volvulus
Today it means: Obstruction of the bowel in which a loop of bowel has abnormally twisted on itself. Full definition →
Late Latin volvulus