NOUN
- surgical operation that shortens the small intestine; used in treating obesity
How To Use intestinal bypass In A Sentence
- Surgical procedures such as wide local excision, partial gastrectomy, total gastrectomy, or gastrointestinal bypass also are performed with palliative intent, to allow oral intake of food and alleviate pain.
- In a paper to be presented later this month, George Loewenstein, a professor of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, studied people who underwent colostomies, or intestinal bypasses. Nothing Can Kill
