| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Blind Loop Syndrome | Health | Malabsorption, especially of vitamin B12 or folic acid, due to metabolic competition by bacteria proliferating in a segment of small intestine excluded from normal peristaltic movement; it may occur as a postoperative complication of side-to-side anastomosis of intestine, as a result of intestinal diverticula, fistula, etc. (references) | |
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