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transhiatal

transhiatal adjective: across or through a hiatus.

Adjective

transhiatal (not comparable)

  1. Across or through a hiatus
    • We describe a case of esophageal adenocarcinoma arising in long-segment BE (LSBE) associated with a hiatal hernia that was successfully treated with a laparoscopic transhiatal approach (LTHA) without thoracotomy.2015 August 7, Atsushi Shiozaki et al., “Laparoscopic transhiatal approach for resection of an adenocarcinoma in long-segment Barrett’s esophagus”, in World Journal of Gastroenterology : WJG, volume...

Origin of transhiatal

From trans- + hiatal.

Questions about transhiatal

What does transhiatal mean?
Transhiatal means across or through a hiatus.
What part of speech is transhiatal?
Transhiatal is an adjective.

Words near transhiatal in the dictionary

  1. transheterozygosity
  2. transheterozygote
  3. transheterozygotes
  4. transheterozygous
  5. transhets
  6. transhiatal
  7. Transhimalaya
  8. tranship
  9. transhipment
  10. transhipments
  11. transhipped

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