Word: antrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bartlett pays more attention than many other experts to the antrum, the lower part of the stomach's rear wall, which partly controls the output of acids. But the antrum also seems to ex ert a balancing effect, and Dr. Bartlett's M.G.H. team has had good results from a vagotomy combined with removal of about half the stomach but leaving a small part of the antrum intact...
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