gastroraphy

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Etymology

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Ancient Greek stomach + a sewing: compare French gastrorrhaphie.

Noun

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gastroraphy (uncountable)

  1. (surgery, dated) The operation of sewing up wounds of the abdomen.
    • 1612, Peter Lowe, A Discourse of the Whole Art of Chyrurgerie:
      There is a kind [] [of suture] in the belly, called Gastrophie []

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