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gastro-enterostomy

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The establishment of a communication between the stomach and some portion of the intestine which is more or less distant from the pylorus.

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Examples

  • It had even been proposed to perform the operation of gastro-enterostomy in the belief that some organic disease existed.

    The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

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