Copremesis#Other types

The Miserere (Latin, have mercy '), the Kopremesis ( composite of Greek κοπριά, kopriá, Kot ' and έμεσις, vomiting, vomiting ') called, is a medical synonym for the rare symptom of Koterbrechens.

Here it comes to non-physiological vomiting of colon contents. The Miserere occurs esp. with a complete intestinal obstruction ( ileus med ), triggered by retroperistalsis on. Another cause may be a malfunction of the ileocecal valve be normally designed to prevent back flow of the large intestinal contents into the small intestine.

The Miserere was in the past for lack of appropriate treatment methods prognostically very unfavorable.