COLOSTOMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does colostomy mean? 

• COLOSTOMY (noun)
  The noun COLOSTOMY has 1 sense:

1. a surgical operation that creates an opening from the colon to the surface of the body to function as an anus

  Familiarity information: COLOSTOMY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLOSTOMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A surgical operation that creates an opening from the colon to the surface of the body to function as an anus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("colostomy" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "colostomy"):

stoma (a mouth or mouthlike opening (especially one created by surgery on the surface of the body to create an opening to an internal organ))

 Context examples 

This opening is called a colostomy.

(Abdominoperineal resection, NCI Dictionary)

Colostomy and urostomy are types of ostomies.

(Ostomy, NCI Dictionary)

It may allow colostomy patients to have better control over their bodies.

(Colostomy irrigation, NCI Dictionary)

A colostomy provides a new path for waste material to leave the body after part of the colon has been removed.

(Colostomy, NCI Dictionary)

A procedure in which a patient with a colostomy flushes the colon with water, using a tube that is inserted into the stoma (a surgically created opening in the body that connects an organ or area inside the body with the outside).

(Colostomy irrigation, NCI Dictionary)