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- noun surgery An
operation involving bringing thecaecum through theabdominal wall , most often by a tube, and opening it fordrainage ordecompression , usually to treat an obstruction of thecolon .
Etymologies
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caecum + -stomy
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Fibiger died on January 30, 1928, at Copenhagen after a short illness (cardiac failure with multiple emboli and massive pulmonary infarcts; cancer of the colon: caecostomy), survived by his wife Mathilde, née Fibiger, whom he married in
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