cœliacadj.n.

/ˈsiːlɪak/

Forms: Also 1600s–1700s cœliack, celiac.

Etymology: < Latin coeliacus, < Greek κοιλιακός belonging to the belly; also, suffering in the bowels, < κοιλία belly, bowels ( < κοῖλος hollow). Compare French cœliaque (in Cotgrave celiac, celiaque).

A. adj.

Of or belonging to the belly, or cavity of the abdomen. Applied spec. to an intestinal disease, esp. of children, characterized by defective digestion of fats. cœliac artery or axis, a thick short branch issuing from the aorta just below the diaphragm, and giving off the coronary, hepatic, and splenic arteries. †cœliac passion or flux a kind of chronic flux of the intestines. cœliac plexus, that process of the solar plexus which surrounds the cœliac axis. cœliac canal, in crinoids, a canal which runs into the arms from the cœloma or body-cavity.

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the world > life > the body > internal organs > cavities occupied by internal organs > [adjective] > abdomen

cœliacal1615

cœliac1662

alvine1715

ventral1744

intra-abdominal1887

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of bowels or intestines > [noun] > other intestinal disorders

cholera1601

cœliac1661

cœliac passion or flux1662

bota1722

mucocele1897

Hirschsprung's disease1900

paraproctitis1900

peptic ulcer1900

megacolon1906

outpouching1909

typhlatony1913

polyposis1914

argentaffinoma1934

irritable bowel syndrome1943

Meckel's diverticulum1946

Meckel's diverticulitis1954

the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > artery > [noun] > specific artery

arterial vein?c1425

adorthy1525

subethal1525

temporal?1541

veiny artery1543

share artery1545

aorta1594

cephalic artery1599

subclavia1615

venous artery1650

subclavicular1656

pulmonary1707

cœliac artery or axis1713

renal1721

radial1723

carotid1741

ranine1753

femoral1754

hypogastric1774

iliac1782

pudical1803

articular1808

pudic1824

anonyma1832

internal mammary1835–6

iliac artery1840

transverse artery1842

innominate artery1866

innominate1879

thyroid axis1881

hyoid1883

medicerebral1889

coronary1893

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of bowels or intestines > [adjective] > other intestinal disorders

colic1586

cœliac1888

colorectal1889

indolic1907

carcinoid1922

1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 222 In the Cœliack or belly passion, the Pylorus is never shut.

1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Celiac vessels, Vessels belonging to the belly.

1713 W. Cheselden Anat. Humane Body iii. ix. 121 Immediately below the Diaphragm arises the Celiac Artery from the Aorta.

1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xv. 197 It attacks..the cæliac plexus of the abdominal nerves.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 194/1 The cœliac artery, called, also, cœliac axis, is one of the largest and shortest of the vessels given off by the abdominal aorta.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals ix. 586 The subtentacular and cœliac canals communicate with channels in the perivisceral tissue.

1888 S. Gee in St. Bart's Hosp. Rep. xxiv. 17 Diarrhœa alba is the name employed in India to denote the cœliac affection; not that it is always a cœliac flux, a diarrhœa strictly speaking.

1911 Practitioner LXXXVII. 147 (heading) Celiac disease.

1930 Q. Jrnl. Med. 23 438 Coeliac disease is probably the result of a development defect in absorption.

1955 Sci. News Let. 5 Mar. 152/2 Many sufferers of sprue and celiac disease, a digestive illness, cannot digest ordinary bread.

†B. n.

= cœliac passion at sense A.

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