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In medicine what is a vagotomy?
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Surgery for ulcers.: In the past, surgery to transect the nerve responsible for stomach digestive juice secretion was used as a method to manage peptic ulcer disease. More effecive and safe medications have since rendered this approach obsolete.
Answered 9/28/2016
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