Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

biliopancreatic diversion

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bil-iopan-cre-at-ic -di-ver-sion
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

8

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An operation in which part of the stomach is resected, creating a smaller stomach to which the distal part of the small intestine is then connected, bypassing the duodenum and jejunum.

Example Sentences

"The study, of 111 children born to 49 mothers who had a type of weight-loss surgery called biliopancreatic diversion, found that babies born after the operation had lower birth weights than those born before, and their risk of becoming severely obese as children was one-third the risk of those born before."

Inflected Forms

biliopancreatic diversions (plural)

Synonyms

Scopinaro procedure

Questions

What does biliopancreatic diversion mean?: An operation in which part of the stomach is resected, creating a smaller stomach to which the distal part of the small intestine is then connected, bypassing the duodenum and jejunum.

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