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English
Etymology
Ancient Greek stomach + a sewing: compare French gastrorrhaphie.
Noun
gastroraphy (uncountable)
- (surgery, dated) The operation of sewing up wounds of the abdomen.
1612, Peter Lowe, A Discourse of the Whole Art of Chyrurgerie:There is a kind […] [of suture] in the belly, called Gastrophie […]
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