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cardioplasty

noun car·dio·plas·ty \ ˈkärd-ē-ō-ˌplas-tē \

medical Definition of cardioplasty

plural cardioplasties
: surgical repair of the gastric cardiac sphincter — called also esophagogastroplasty

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