antrectomy, n. Surg.
(ænˈtrɛktəmɪ)
[f. antrum n. + -ectomy.]
Surgical removal of the walls of an antrum, esp. of the mastoid or pyloric antrum.
| 1900 Dorland Med. Dict. 56/1 Antrectomy, surgical removal of the walls of the mastoid antrum. 1952 N. C. Tanner in F. A. Jones Mod. Trends Gastro-Enterol. xvi. 410 It has been recommended..that only a low gastrectomy, a pyloric antrectomy, should be carried out. 1976 Lancet 11 Dec. 1303/1 Jordan compared parietal-cell vagotomy with selective vagotomy and antrectomy. 1987 Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. xii. 62/1 Antrectomy in duodenal ulcer patients reduces the acid secretory response to sham feeding. |