Billroth

Billroth definition - medical

Bill·roth (bĭlˈrōt), (Christian Albert) Theodor 1829-1894.

Austrian surgeon who was a pioneer of modern abdominal surgery. He performed the first successful excision of the larynx in 1874, and the first resection of the intestine in 1881.

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