what does jejunostomy mean?

I had pre-op testing thursday,surgery is monday. I asked the dr. if he was doing proximal or distal and he said distal there is no proximal. He has recommended the following-open gastric bypass with reuy-en-y gastro jejunostomy. Does that simply mean open rny-distal?

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