Arteriovenostomy

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Noun
  1. 1
    The implantation of a shunt or cannula for chronic renal dialysis.

    "Arteriovenostomies occurred slightly less than 30,000 times in 1992; between 1986 and 1992, the rate increased by 34 percent in white beneficiaries and by 73 percent in black beneficiaries."

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"Arteriovenostomies occurred slightly less than 30,000 times in 1992; between 1986 and 1992, the rate increased by 34 percent in white beneficiaries and by 73 percent in black beneficiaries."

Etymology

From arterio- + veno- + -ostomy.

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