OSTOMY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ostomy mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OSTOMY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ostomy"):

colostomy (a surgical operation that creates an opening from the colon to the surface of the body to function as an anus)

ileostomy (surgical procedure that creates an opening from the ileum through the abdominal wall to function as an anus; performed in cases of cancer of the colon or ulcerative colitis)

 Context examples 

There are many different types of ostomy.

(Ostomy, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Colostomy and urostomy are types of ostomies.

(Ostomy, NCI Dictionary)

With an ostomy, there must be a new way for wastes to leave the body.

(Ostomy, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

An ostomy is surgery to create an opening (stoma) from an area inside the body to the outside.

(Ostomy, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)