Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Surgical incision into the stomach.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery:
- noun The operation of cutting into the stomach.
- noun Laparotomy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) A cutting into, or opening of, the abdomen or the stomach.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun surgery Any form of
incision into thestomach
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Examples
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Additional procedures can be done, such as gastrotomy, which obviates the NG tube and decreases the risk of recurrent volvulus.
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Additional procedures can be done, such as gastrotomy, which obviates the NG tube and decreases the risk of recurrent volvulus.
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Or would it be the dreaded gastrotomy — a surgical procedure to cut open her stomach and fish out the clumpy, non-digestible stuff?
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Two weeks later, gastroperitoneal symptoms presented, and as the stick was located, gastrotomy was proposed; the patient, however, would not consent to an operation.
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De Diemerbroeck * [304] mentions the fact that a knife ten inches long was extracted by gastrotomy, and placed among the rarities in the anatomic chamber of the University at Leyden.
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After it had been lodged in this position for seven weeks and two days gastrotomy was performed, and the knife extracted; the patient recovered.
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Journal for 1825 12.147 there is an account of a juggler who swallowed a knife which remained in his stomach and caused such intense symptoms that gastrotomy was advised; the patient, however, refused operation.
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Bell 12.142 of Davenport, Iowa, performed gastrotomy on a man, who, while attempting a feat of legerdemain, allowed a bar of lead, 10 1/8 inches long, 1 1/2 inches wide, and 9 1/2 ounces in weight, to slip into his stomach.
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The records of injuries of this nature extend back many hundred years, and even in the earlier days the delicate operation of gastrotomy, sometimes with a successful issue, was performed upon persons who had swallowed knives.
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Wilson 12.164 mentions an instance of gastrotomy which was performed for the extraction of a fork swallowed sixteen years before.
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