A surgical procedure to stitch or sew together a torn or perforated intestine to repair damage and prevent leakage.
From Greek 'enteron' (intestine) + 'rhaphe' (seam or suture, from 'rhaptein' meaning to sew). Medical '-rraphy' procedures involve stitching and suturing organs together.
Enterorrhaphy is one of the oldest surgical procedures known to medicine—surgeons have been carefully stitching up intestinal holes for thousands of years, and if done perfectly, the intestines heal without leaking deadly infection into the abdomen.
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