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fundoplications

fundoplications is the plural of fundoplication.

Meaning of fundoplication

Noun

fundoplication (plural fundoplications)

  1. An operation in which the gastric fundus (upper part) of the stomach is wrapped, or plicated, around the lower end of the esophagus and stitched in place, reinforcing the closing function of the lower esophageal sphincter. The esophageal hiatus is also narrowed down by sutures to prevent or treat concurrent hiatal hernia, in which the fundus slides up through the enlarged esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm.

Questions about fundoplications

What is fundoplications the plural of?
Fundoplications is the plural of fundoplication.

Words near fundoplications in the dictionary

  1. fundless
  2. fundlessness
  3. fundoplasties
  4. fundoplasty
  5. fundoplication
  6. fundoplications
  7. Fundora
  8. Fundoras
  9. fundoscope
  10. fundoscopes
  11. fundoscopic

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