stomach stapling

British

noun

a treatment for obesity in which the capacity of the stomach is reduced by a surgical procedure

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Throughout the sixties and seventies, stomach stapling became popular.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 19, 2016

Dr. Mitchell Roslin, a bariatric surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, says there are fewer legal obstacles to stomach stapling in Kuwait than in the U.S.

From BusinessWeek • Jun. 21, 2012

It took several years after the influx of fast food for stomach stapling, another North American import, to come to Kuwait.

From BusinessWeek • Jun. 21, 2012

Sure, stomach stapling is all the rage--100,000 operations last year--but the costly, risky procedure is no answer for the massive masses.

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