esophagoenterostomy

noun

A surgical procedure that connects the esophagus directly to the small intestine, usually done after removal or loss of the stomach to allow food to continue through the digestive tract.

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Meanings

nounesophagoenterostomy (countable and uncountable, plural esophagoenterostomies)

plural esophagoenterostomies

  1. countableuncountablemedicineA surgical procedure that connects the esophagus directly to the small intestine, usually done after removal or loss of the stomach to allow food to continue through the digestive tract.

    Because the esophagus has no serosa, esophagoenterostomies are much higher risk.

    2005, Courtney M. Townsend, David C. Sabiston, Pocket Companion to Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, Saunders, →ISBN, page 178

Origin

From esophago- + enterostomy.

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