Disease or Syndrome
intestinal perforation
in·tes·ti·nal per·fo·ra·tion [ in-tes-tuh-nl pur-fuh-rey-shuhn ]
Subclass of:
Intestinal Diseases
Definitions related to intestinal perforation:
  • A hole (perforation) in the wall of the intestine.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2025
  • A rupture in the wall of the small or large intestine due to traumatic or pathologic processes.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Opening or penetration through the wall of the INTESTINES.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Lau and Leow have indicated that perforated peptic ulcer was clinically recognized by 1799, but the first successful surgical management of gastric ulcer was by Ludwig Heusner in Germany in 1892. In 1894, Henry Percy Dean from London was the first surgeon to report successful repair of a perforated duodenal ulcer.
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2025
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