JEJUNUM • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Jejunum

... consists in making a new gullet to replace that which is obstructed; the abdomen is opened and a loop of jejunum is isolated; its lower end is anastomosed—end to side—to the stomach; the intestine is brought upwards through a tunnel made for it between the skin and the sternum, and the upper end is brought out and fixed to the skin, in the supra-sternal notch. It has scarcely passed beyond ...

— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles