gastroplasty
noun
gastroplasty is a noun meaning “A surgical operation to correct any kind of defect in the stomach” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-A-S-T-R-O-P-L-A-S-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gastroplasty is gastroplasties.
What does gastroplasty mean?
noun
- 1
A surgical operation to correct any kind of defect in the stomach.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of gastroplasty
- gastroplasties plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gastroplasty?
Gastroplasty appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Gastroplasty in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense surgery on the stomach:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | gastroplastie |
| Portuguese | gastroplastia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does gastroplasty come from?
From gastro- + -plasty.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).