gastroenterostomy

1. 1.

   surgical creation of an opening between the stomach wall and the small intestines; performed when the normal opening has been eliminated

   Broaderoperation

Other forms of gastroenterostomy

plural

gastroenterostomies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gastroenterostomy

What does gastroenterostomy mean?

gastroenterostomy means "surgical creation of an opening between the stomach wall and the small intestines; performed when the normal opening has been eliminated".

How many syllables are in gastroenterostomy?

gastroenterostomy has 7 syllables: ga-stro-en-te-ro-sto-my. The stress falls on "ro".

Is gastroenterostomy a common word?

gastroenterostomy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.