Definition: 'Dietl Crisis'
Dietl crisis
Type: TermPronunciation: dē′til
Definitions:
1. intermittent pain, sometimes with nausea and emesis, caused by intermittent proximal obstruction of ureter. Originally believed due to a mobile kidney that caused ureter to kink with positional changes.
Synonyms:
incarceration symptom
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