colostomy
IPA: kɑɫʌstoʊmi
noun
- (surgery) An incision into the colon to allow for drainage; the opening produced in such incision.
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Examples of "colostomy" in Sentences
- He had rectal cancer and had a colostomy in 1933.
- One had a colostomy at age 7 and died in her 40's.
- A filter is provided for a colostomy or ileostomy bag.
- This is where transverse colostomy and drainage occur.
- A drip to keep him alive, eyes help open, colostomy bag etc.
- Current practice is to perform the procedure without a colostomy.
- A permanent colostomy may be necessary in the case of imperforate anus.
- The procedure leaves the person with a permanent colostomy and vesicostomy.
- The rapper told the screeners at first that the object was a colostomy bag.
- A colostomy is your large bowel brought to the surface of your skin, cut open.
- On good days I thought: my colostomy is my badge of honour, my medal of flesh.
- A colostomy may be permanent or temporary, depending on the reasons for its use.
- The same day, Ruth Sherman, 88, of Sunrise, Florida, was asked about a visible protrusion from her waist band, which she identified as her colostomy bag.
- The word colostomy is derived from Greek: ‘kolon’ which means large bowel, ‘stoumon’ which means to provide an opening, and ‘tome’ which means a cutting operation.
- One thing that helps in a situation like this -- and he may have had this done, it's hard to know for sure -- is actually to create what's known as a colostomy bag.
- And one thing that they do sometimes -- excuse me, a little bit of throat congestion -- they actually sometimes will divert some of the intestine into a bag -- it's called a colostomy bag -- so that actually the intestine gets a chance to heal, the abdominal cavity gets a chance to heal while that suture line is fixing itself.
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