stoma

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He's fine, he just still has his naso-gastric tube and they are now in the process of reversing his stoma.

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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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  • He's fine, he just still has his naso-gastric tube and they are now in the process of reversing his stoma. —  sheepdip Diary Entry
  • Right, so a stoma is the external opening of one's internal guts. —  Dane101
  • The glottoid part of the stoma has been reduced or lost more than once, explaining a difference from previous phylogenetic hypotheses which assumed absence is primitive. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • A colostomy is created when an individual's colon and/or rectum is partially or completely removed or bypassed and the remaining healthy portion of the intestine is brought through the abdominal wall, forming what is referred to as a stoma. —  Medindia Health News
  • The impact was felt, judging by the amount of students who walked away when Thompson took out her tube and showed them the hole in her neck, called a stoma. —  Home News Tribune - News
 

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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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