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Ostomy

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Noun

1. ostomy

surgical procedure that creates an artificial opening for the elimination of bodily wastes

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ostomy

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noun plural -mies
1. 
a surgically created opening
2. 
the surgery that creates such an opening

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Ostomy

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nounWord forms: plural ˈostomies
any surgery connecting a hollow organ to the outside of the body or to another hollow organ, as a colostomy

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ostomy

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n. pl. os·to·mies
Surgical construction of an artificial excretory opening, as a colostomy or ileostomy.

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