Top 15 Health Benefits of Bariatric Surgery - Glossary
Glossary
Bariatric surgery: (Etymology: Greek words "baros," meaning "weight," and "iatrikos," meaning "medicine") is the term for a surgery that helps you lose weight.Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: the most common surgical weight loss procedure that decreases stomach volume and nutritionally bypasses the normal food stream.
Cancer: Cancer is an unregulated proliferation of cells due to loss of normal controls, resulting in unregulated growth, lack of differentiation, local tissue invasion, and, often, metastasis. (Source: The Merck Manual).
Body Mass Index (BMI): BMI is calculated as weight (in kilograms)/height squared (in meters).
Calories: A unit of measure of heat derived from combustion of fuel, such as food; energy that comes from food.
Nausea: It is the unpleasant feeling of needing to vomit (Source: The Merck Manual).
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