A surgical instrument designed for making incisions into the stomach during gastrotomy procedures.
From Greek 'gastro-' (stomach) + 'tome' (a cutting tool, from 'temnein' meaning to cut). The term literally means a stomach-cutting instrument, combining stomach with the Greek root for cutting.
Gastrotomes are precisely designed surgical instruments with special blade geometries to cut through the stomach wall cleanly without damaging surrounding tissues—they represent centuries of surgical instrument refinement!
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