Gastric bypass

/ɡˈastɹɪk bˈaɪpas/

/ɡˈæstɹɪk bˈaɪpæs/

Gastric bypass

a type of weight-loss surgery that that aims to help manage obesity by shrinking the size of someone's stomach so that they will eat less food

Examples

1. Take this stomach out, gastric bypass.

2. The film detailed his gastric bypass surgery.

3. - I had gastric bypass.

4. Dawn's look at life completely changed after gastric bypass surgery.