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What is a vagotomy?

What is a vagotomy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (surgery) The surgical resection of the vagus nerve so as to reduce the secretion of acid in the stomach and so control duodenal ulcers.
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Interference with the esophageal hiatus during surgical procedures such as vagotomy may predispose to reflux esophagitis.
Physiological changes which occur in the gall bladder following truncal vagotomy for peptic ulcer disease may contribute to the formation of gall stones.
Postsurgical gastroparesis is most often a consequence of peptic ulcer surgery with concurrent performance of vagotomy.
Ten years before the incident, he had undergone cholecystectomy, vagotomy and pyloroplasty.
Antibiotics have made cardiac valve surgery for rheumatic fever a bygone and the hemigastrectomy and vagotomy for duodenal ulcer a rarity.
A vagotomy is usually done in conjunction with an antrectomy.

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