gastroenterostomy
- n surgical creation of an opening between the stomach wall and the small intestines; performed when the normal opening has been eliminated
- Surely an officer with a peptic ulcer so severe it required surgery (gastroenterostomy, I believe) at Mayo's could not pass a physical? Perhaps it is just sour grapes on my part .
- So vagotomy has been combined with hemigastrectomy (second diagram), and also with the older operation of gastroenterostomy (third diagram), in which nothing is cut out but the .