stoma

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Heather also has a stoma, a direct opening through the skin that allows a small bag connected to her bowels to aid in the removal of stool.

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  1. noun Botany One of the minute pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass. Also called stomate.
  2. noun Anatomy A small aperture in the surface of a membrane.
  3. noun A surgically constructed opening, especially one in the abdominal wall that permits the passage of waste after a colostomy or ileostomy.
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  • After measuring the stoma, it was evident that Parker wasn't ready for a bigger size of g-tube, which would have been the quick and easy fix. —  Praying For Parker
  • These were: chambered walls of the stoma, zonula adherens in the esophagus, daedaloid folds in the inner surface of the uterus and openings in the terminal web of the intestinal epithelium. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Higher temperatures cause the plant cells which control the openings (stoma), where water is released to the humidity of the air surrounding the plant rises the transpiration rate falls. —  Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth
  • Derek Elley: "The Cinema of Verbal Abuse reaches new heights in I psihi sto stoma (Soul Kicking), a two-hour rant-fest that's as punishing on the audience as it is on the characters." —  GreenCine Daily
  • But father would have loved a stoma and being able to drive a car again much more than being buried for 2 years now … —  Metastatic liver cancer
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. New Latin, from Greek, mouth.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek στόμα (στοματ-), plural στόματα, the mouth, a mouth, opening, entrance or outlet, a chasm, cleft, etc., the face, front, fore part, etc.; = Zend staman, mouth. Cf. stomach, from the same source.
 

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