English
Etymology
From vago- + -tomy.
Noun
vagotomy (plural vagotomies)
- (surgery) The surgical resection of the vagus nerve so as to reduce the secretion of acid in the stomach and so control duodenal ulcers.
Derived terms
Translations
surgery of the vagus nerve
- Armenian: վագոտոմիա (hy) (vagotomia)
- Basque: bagotomia
- Catalan: vagotomia f
- Esperanto: vagotomio
- Estonian: vagotoomia
- French: vagotomie (fr) f
- German: Vagotomie (de) f
- Greek: βαγοτομή (el) f (vagotomí)
- Interlingua: vagotomia
- Italian: vagotomia f
- Persian: واگوتومی (vâgutumy)
- Polish: wagotomia f
- Romanian: vagotomie (ro) f
- Russian: ваготоми́я (ru) f (vagotomíja)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вагото̀мија f
- Latin: vagotòmija (sh) f
- Spanish: vagotomía f
- Tajik: ваготомия (vagotomiya)
- Ukrainian: ваготомі́я (uk) f (vahotomíja)
- Uzbek:
- Cyrillic: ваготомия (vagotomiya)
- Latin: vagotomiya
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