(before a vowel sometimes reduced to enter-), combining form of Gr. ἔντερο-ν intestine, in many compounds of mod. formation, occurring in Biology, Pathology, etc. The most important only are here given; as Enteradenography, Anat. [see ADENOGRAPHY], ‘a description of the intestinal glands’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). Enteradenology, Anat. and Phys. [see ADENOLOGY], ‘an account of the intestinal glands’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). Enterocele, Surg. [Gr. κήλη tumor], a hernial tumor whose contents are intestine. Hence Enterocelic a. Enteroepiplocele Surg. [see EPIPLOCELE], a hernia in which portions of intestine and omentum are both protruded. Enterogastrocele, Surg., a term for an abdominal hernia containing intestine. Enterography, ‘a description of the intestines’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). Enterohydrocele, Surg. [see HYDROCELE], ‘intestinal hernia conjoined with hydrocele’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). Enterolite, altered form of Enterolith, Path. [Gr. λίθος a stone], a stony concretion in the stomach or intestinal canal of animals, and occasionally of man. Enterology, Anat. [+ -LOGY], ‘a treatise on, or the consideration of the history of, the intestines’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). Enteropathy, Path. [Gr. -παθεια, f. πάθος suffering], ‘intestinal disorder or disease’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). Enteroplasty, Surg. [+ Gr. πλαστ-ής fashioner + -Y], the restoration by plastic operation of a solution of continuity of the intestine. Enterotomy, Surg. [Gr. -τομια cutting], the opening of the intestine to release its contents, as sometimes in hernia, or to remove a foreign body.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 62. Pounded with honey it [the ashes of a Hare] helps the *enterocele.
1878. T. Bryant, Pract. Surg., I. 646.
1736. Bailey, *Enterocelick. Ibid., *Enteroepiplocele.
1878. T. Bryant, Pract. Surg., I. 646. When both intestine and omentum occupy the sac, [they form an] entero-epiplocele.
1884. Syd. Soc. Lex., *Enterolith.
1721. Bailey, *Enterology.
1878. T. Bryant, Pract. Surg., I. 627. Or these [means] *‘enterotomy’ is most applicable.
