enteroanastomosis
enteroenterostomy
[en″ter-o-en″ter-os´tah-me]en·ter·o·en·ter·os·to·my
(en'tĕr-ō-en'tĕr-os'tŏ-mē),enteroanastomosis
(ĕn′tə-rō-ə-năs′tə-mō′sĭs)enteroplexy
A rarely used, nonspecific term for intestinal anastomosis;such terms are generally inadequate, as any form of surgically created pathway in a nonterminal portion of the gastrointestinal tract requires adjectival modifiers to indicate both from and to—e.g., enteroenteric, gastrojejunal, esophagosigmoid and so on.
en·ter·o·en·ter·os·to·my
(en'tĕr-ō-en-tĕr-os'tŏ-mē)Synonym(s): enteroanastomosis, intestinal anastomosis.