Usually means: Surgical cutting of vagus nerve.
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  1. vagotomy: Merriam-Webster
  2. vagotomy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vagotomy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vagotomy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vagotomy: Wordnik
  6. vagotomy: Wiktionary
  7. vagotomy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. vagotomy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. vagotomy: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. vagotomy: Dictionary.com
  11. Vagotomy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. vagotomy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (vagotomy)

noun:  (surgery) The surgical resection of the vagus nerve so as to reduce the secretion of acid in the stomach and so control duodenal ulcers.

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