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GASTROENTEROLOGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gastroenterology mean?
• GASTROENTEROLOGY (noun)
The noun GASTROENTEROLOGY has 1 sense:
1. the branch of medicine that studies the gastrointestinal tract and its diseases
Familiarity information: GASTROENTEROLOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of medicine that studies the gastrointestinal tract and its diseases
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("gastroenterology" is a kind of...):
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Derivation:
gastroenterologist (a physician who specializes in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract)
Context examples
The research was presented at this week at UEG Week in Vienna, Austria, the largest gastroenterology meeting in Europe.
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