surgical formation of an artificial opening between the stomach and the small intestine
gastroenterostomy in American English
(ˌɡæstrouˌentəˈrɑstəmi)
nounWord forms: plural-mies
Surgery
the making of a new passage between the stomach and the duodenum (gastroduodenostomy) or, esp., the jejunum (gastrojejunostomy)
Word origin
[1885–90; gastroentero- + -stomy]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: classified, reactor, scrum, seminar, zoom-stomy is a combining form used in the names of surgical operations that involve the establishmentof an artificial opening into or between the part or parts specified by the initialelement. Other words that use the affix -stomy include: cholecystostomy, gastrostomy, ileostomy, jejunostomy, thoracostomy
Examples of 'gastroenterostomy' in a sentence
gastroenterostomy
The patient was submitted to a gastroenterostomy without tumor resection.
Óscar Moreno-Loaíza, Diana Neira-Rojas 2013, 'Primary duodenal adenocarcinoma: case report of an infrequent tumor', Medwavewww.medwave.cl/link.cgi/Medwave/Estudios/Casos/5821. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A locally advanced tumor originating from the gastroenterostomy anastomosis site that totally obliterated the lumen was observed on surgical exploration.
Barış Özcan, Metin Çevener, Ayşegül Kargı, Mustafa Özdoğan, Alihan Gürkan 2018, 'Isolated Superior Mesenteric Vein Tumor Thrombus in a Patient with Gastric Cancer',Case Reports in Surgeryhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/3648436. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)