intestinal bypass

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   surgical operation that shortens the small intestine; used in treating obesity

   Broaderoperation

Questions about intestinal bypass

What does intestinal bypass mean?

intestinal bypass means "surgical operation that shortens the small intestine; used in treating obesity".

Is intestinal bypass a common word?

intestinal bypass 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.