Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- surrounding the alimentry canal; perienterric; perivisceral: as, the perigastric space of a polzoan, corresponding to the abdominal cavity of a vertebrate; the perigastric fluid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Surrounding the stomach; -- applied to the body cavity of Bryozoa and various other Invertebrata.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Surrounding the
stomach .
Etymologies
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peri- + gastric
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Examples
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Enlarged periantral LNs were detected during laparotomy and patient underwent distal gastrectomy with en bloc perigastric LN dissection.
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Herein, we report a case of GIST of the stomach with LN metastasis treated with distal gastrectomy with perigastric LN dissection followed by adjuvant imatinib therapy.
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