Surgical operation for fixing an organ in position.
Greek ‑pexia, pexis, fixing or putting together.
Examples include mastopexy (Greek mastos, breast), an operation to lift and fix the breast; orchidopexy (also orchiopexy) (Greek orkhis, testicle), an operation to move an undescended testicle into the scrotum and fix it there; gastropexy, surgical attachment of the stomach to the intestinal wall.
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