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HOLDING TOGETHER BY NEW TISSUE, PRODUCED BY INFLAMMATION OR INJURY OF TWO STRUCTURES THAT ARE NORMALLY SEPARATE ( 2 ORGANS STUCK TOGETHER)

ADHESION

UNION OF PARTS OR BRANCHES SO AS TO INTERCOMMUNICATE

ANASTOMOSIS

IMPERFORATION OR CLOSURE OF A NORMAL TUBULAR OPENING OF THE BODY

ATRESIA

SMALL, BLIND POUCHES THAT FORM IN THE LINING AND WALL OF A CANAL OR ORGAN, ESPECIALLY THE COLON

DIVERTICULA OR DIVERTICULUM

INVAGINATION OF PROXIMAL INTESTINE INTO THE LUMEN OF THE DISTAL INTESTINE CAUSING INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION

INTUSSUSCEPTION

POUCH LOCATED AT THE DISTAL ILEUM CAUSED BY AN INTUSSUSCEPTION OF A DIVERTICULUM.

MECKELS DIVERTICULUM

ULCER CONSISTING OF LOCALIZED DESTRUCTION OF TISSUE ON THE MUCOUS MEMBRANE IN THE DUODENUM OR THE STOMACH

PEPTIC ULCER

INFLAMMATION OF THE PERITONEAL CAVITY

PERITONITIS

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITY RESULTING IN THE NARROWING OF THE OPENING BETWEEN THE STOMACH AND THE DUODENUM

PYLORIC STENOSIS

TORSION OF A LOOP OF INTESTINE CAUSING OBSTRUCTION

VOLVULUS

A PROCEDURE IN WHICH A SECTION OF AN ORGAN IS CUT APART OR REMOVED

RESECTION

A PROCEDURE IN WHICH TWO HOLLOW ORGANS ARE JOINED SURGICALLY

ANASTOMOSIS

A PROCEDURE IN WHICH ONE SECTION OF TISSUE IS CUT AWAY FROM ANOTHER

DIVISION

TO PLACE ONE OR MORE CLAMPS AT A RIGHT ANGLE TO A TUBE OR VESSEL

CROSS CLAMP

TO PLACE TWO CLAMPS OVER A SECTION OF TISSUE TO PREVENT BLEEDING WHEN THE TISSUE IS SEVERED

DOUBLE CLAMP

THE FREEING UP OF TISSUE FROM ITS ATTACHMENTS BEFORE ANASTOMOSIS OR RESECTION

MOBILIZATION

TO BOTH DOUBLE CLAMP AND DIVIDE TISSUE

CLAMP AND DIVIDE

PLACEMENT OF FEEDING TUBE FROM INSIDE TO OUT

PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY (PEG)

CREATING A SURGICAL OPENING FROM THE ESOPHAGUS TO THE STOMACH

ESOPHAGOGASTROSTOMY

REMOVAL OF PART OF THE STOMACH & ESOPHAGUS

ESOPHAGOGASTRECTOMY

REMOVAL OF THYROID

THYROIDECTOMY

FEEDING TUBE PLACED FROM NOSE TO STOMACH FOR TEMPORARY NUTRITIONAL ASSISTANCE

N/G TUBE (NASOGASTRIC TUBE)

REMOVAL OF THE APPENDIX

APPENDECTOMY

RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY OF THE PYLORUS (CUTTING SCAR TISSUE)

PYLOROPLASTY

DIVIDING THE VAGUS NERVE

VAGOTOMY

CUTTING THE MUSCLES OF THE PYLORUS

PYLOROMYOTOMY

OPENING IN THE JEJUNUM

JEJUNOSTOMY

OPENING OF THE ILEUM; TRANSECTED; RIGHT SIDE OF ABDOMEN

ILEOSTOMY

SURGICALLY CREATED OPENING OF THE COLON

COLOSTOMY

SECTION OF COLON IS CUT APART OR REMOVED

COLON RESECTION

EXTERNAL OPENING INTO STOMACH FOR NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT OR GASTRIC DECOMPRESSION

GASTROTOMY

OPENING MADE IN STOMACH WALLS, FEEDING TUBE CAN BE INSERTED

GASTROSTOMY

INCISION OF MUSCLES IN THE STOMACH

GASTROMYOTOMY

REMOVAL OF SPLEEN

SPLENECTOMY

REMOVAL OF PANCREAS

PANCREATECTOMY

REMOVAL OF ANUS, RECTUM, SIGMOID COLON

ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION

REMOVAL/RESECTION OF PANCREAS/DUODENUM

PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY (WHIPPLE)

OPENING IN THE CECUM

CECOSTOMY

REMOVAL OR RESECTION OF COLON

COLECTOMY

EXCISION OF 1/2 OF COLON

HEMICOLECTOMY

DISEASED PORTION OF BOWEL IS REMOVED

SMALL BOWEL RESECTION

REMOVAL OF STOMACH

GASTRECTOMY

EXCISION & LIGATION OF DILATED VARICOSITIES OF THE VEINS OF THE ANUS & RECTUM TO RELIEVE DISCOMFORT & CONTROL BLEEDING

HEMORRHOIDECTOMY

GASTRIC BYPASS

OPEN ROUX -EN -Y

LAPRASCOPIC GASTRIC BYPASS; USING THE JEJUNUM CALLED - GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY

LAP: ROUX -EN -Y

STOMACH CONNECTING TO DUODENUM

BILL ROTH I

STOMACH OUT CONNECTING TO JEJUNUM

BILL ROTH II

BAND AROUND TOP OF STOMACH

LAP BANDING

CREATES A NEW GASTRIC POUCH TO DECREASE AMOUNT OF FOOD ABSORPTION

GASTRIC BY PASS

OPENING THE TRACT OF FISTULA

FISTULOTOMY

SCOPE TO VIEW ESOPHAGUS, STOMACH, & DUODENUM

ESOPHAGASTRODUODENOSCOPY

INCISING WALL OF SPHINCTER FOR DILATION

SPHINCTEROTOMY

REMOVAL OF POLYPS

POLYPECTOMY

ALTERNATIVE METHOD FOR HEMORRHOIDS; 2 BANDS PLACED AROUND EACH BASE

RUBBER BANDING

OPENING THE TRACT AND HEAL BY GRANULATION

FISTULOTOMY

EXCISION OF FISSURE

FISSURECTOMY

THE ENTIRE TRACT CAN BE EXCISED

FISTULECTOMY