gastroraphy

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek stomach + a sewing: compare French gastrorrhaphie.

Noun

gastroraphy (uncountable)

1. (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 […]

References

• “gastroraphy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• astrography