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Gastrectomy definition

gă-strĕktə-mē
gastrectomies
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Surgical excision of part or all of the stomach.
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The surgical removal of all, or esp. part, of the stomach.
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Surgical excision of part or all of the stomach.
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(surgery) Removal or partial removal of the stomach.
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Singular:
gastrectomy
Plural:
gastrectomies

Origin of gastrectomy

  • Coined based on Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gaster) +‎ -ectomy.

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Gastrectomy Sentence Examples

  • On 1 October a consultant surgeon performed a subtotal gastrectomy (surgical removal of part of the stomach ).

  • The aims of palliative gastrectomy are often to enable oral food intake, stop bleeding or relieve pain.

  • The first Billroth I partial gastrectomy was performed on a 43 year old woman in 1881 for a pyloric gastric cancer.

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