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gastrectomy
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gastrectomy

Surgical removal of all or part of the stomach to treat peptic ulcers. It eliminates the cells that secrete acid and halts the production of gastrin, the hormone that stimulates them. Once a common operation, it is now a last resort. The usual procedure, antrectomy, removes the lower half of the stomach (antrum), the chief site of gastrin secretion. The remaining stomach is joined to the duodenum. Subtotal gastrectomy removes up to three-quarters of the stomach. The greatest drawback is malnutrition caused by decreased appetite and inability to digest food.


gastrectomy [ga′strek·tə·mē]
(medicine)
Surgical removal of all or part of the stomach.


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He retells well the notorious affair surrounding the Viennese physician Theodor Billroth, who though later fighting anti-semitism, published a book arguing that Jews were not racially fit to be doctors.
In 1859, Billroth coined the term cylindroma to describe the pathologic entity we now call adenoid cystic carcinoma.
 
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