bowel bypass syndrome
n.
A syndrome following and resulting from bowel bypass surgery whose symptoms include fever, chills, malaise, and inflammatory cutaneous papules and pustules on the extremities and upper trunk.
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Nearby words
- bowdlerize,
- bowdlerizing,
- bowed,
- bowel,
- bowel bypass,
- bowel movement,
- bowell,
- bowell, sir mackenzie,
- bowen,
- bowen's disease
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