Word.ws English Dictionary

pancreaticojejunostomy

pancreaticojejunostomy noun: a surgical procedure in which the pancreas is joined to the jejunum to allow pancreatic juices to drain into the small intestine.

Noun

pancreaticojejunostomy (plural pancreaticojejunostomies)

  1. A surgical procedure in which the pancreas is joined to the jejunum to allow pancreatic juices to drain into the small intestine.

Synonyms of pancreaticojejunostomy

Forms of pancreaticojejunostomy

pluralpancreaticojejunostomies

Origin of pancreaticojejunostomy

From pancreatico- + jejuno- + -stomy or pancreatico- + jejun- + -ostomy or pancreatico- + jejunostomy.

Questions about pancreaticojejunostomy

What does pancreaticojejunostomy mean?
Pancreaticojejunostomy means a surgical procedure in which the pancreas is joined to the jejunum to allow pancreatic juices to drain into the small intestine.
What part of speech is pancreaticojejunostomy?
Pancreaticojejunostomy is a noun.
What is the plural of pancreaticojejunostomy?
The plural of pancreaticojejunostomy is pancreaticojejunostomies.

Words near pancreaticojejunostomy in the dictionary

  1. pancreaticogastrostomy
  2. pancreaticography
  3. pancreaticohepatic
  4. pancreaticojejunal
  5. pancreaticojejunostomies
  6. pancreaticojejunostomy
  7. pancreaticopleural
  8. pancreaticosplenectomies
  9. pancreaticosplenectomy
  10. pancreaticosplenic
  11. pancreatin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pancreaticojejunostomy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pancreaticojejunostomy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pancreaticojejunostomy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.