GASTROSTOMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gastrostomy mean? 

• GASTROSTOMY (noun)
  The noun GASTROSTOMY has 1 sense:

1. surgical creation of an opening through the abdominal wall into the stomach (as for gastrogavage)

  Familiarity information: GASTROSTOMY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GASTROSTOMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surgical creation of an opening through the abdominal wall into the stomach (as for gastrogavage)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("gastrostomy" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

 Context examples 

Also called gastrostomy tube and PEG tube.

(Percutaneous endoscopic tube, NCI Dictionary)

Also called gastrostomy tube and percutaneous endoscopic tube.

(PEG tube, NCI Dictionary)

Administration of a drug within the stomach, e.g. via gavage or via gastrostomy.

(Intragastric Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

Giving food through a gastrostomy tube is a type of enteral nutrition.

(Gastrostomy tube, NCI Dictionary)