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Definition: Colostomy |
ColostomyNoun1. A surgical operation that creates an opening from the colon to the surface of the body to function as an anus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | An opening into the colon from the outside of the body. A colostomy provides a new path for waste material to leave the body after part of the colon has been removed. (references) |
Medicine | The opening performed in the colon through the abdominal walls by colostomy in the lower colon, rectum or just above the affected area. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The surgical creation of a new opening of the colon or the surface of the body. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Colostomy |
| Specialty definitions using "colostomy": artificial anus ♦ bag on the side. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Line drawing showing a permanent colostomy for rectal cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If the doctor leaves part of the large intestine and connects that to the stoma, the surgery is called a colostomy. (references) | |
The end of the colon is connected to the hole, a procedure called a colostomy, to allow normal eating and bowel movement. (references) | ||
If the child has not had the pull-through surgery yet, the doctor may prepare for it by doing a colostomy or ileostomy before the child leaves the hospital. (references) | ||
Business | Hearing aids, diagnostic equipment and apparatus, and colostomy and ureterostomy bags and products alone account for more than half of total production. (references) | |
These include wheel chairs, orthopedic products, walking aids, crutches, all kind of bath safety products, massage apparatus, colostomy and blood bags, sanitary devices, adjustable beds, respiratory apparatus, and others. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Colostomy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.29% of the time. "Colostomy" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.29% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.71% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 35 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "colostomy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | colostomi (abdominal anus), kunstig anus (artificial anus), kolostomi (artificial anus), blivende colostomi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | colostomie, coloproctie, coloproctia, anus praenaturalis (artificial anus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tekoperäaukko (artificial anus), kolostomia (artificial anus), anus praeternaturalis (artificial anus), anus artificialis (artificial anus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | colostomie définitive, colostomie, anus contre nature, anus artificiel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Kunstafter (artificial anus), Kolostomie, Dauerkolostomie, Anus praeternaturalis (artificial anus, preternatural anus), Anus artificialis (artificial anus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κολοστομία, τεχνητή έδρα (artificial anus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | colostomia, vastagbélsipoly készítése. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | colostomia terminale (artificial anus), colostomia, ano preternaturale (abdominal anus, artificial anus), ano contro natura (abdominal anus, artificial anus), ano artificiale (abdominal anus, artificial anus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olostomycay colostomia. (various references) colostomía permanente, colostomía, ano artificial (abdominal anus, artificial anus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | anus praeternaturalis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Colostomy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cholostomy, clostomy, collostomy, Colossoma, colosstomy, colosthomy, colostimy, colostome, colostopy, kolostomy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-l-m-o-o-o-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: colotomy. | |
-2 letters: cytosol. | |
-3 letters: cloots, costly, cymols, mostly, octyls, oocyst, ostomy. | |
-4 letters: cloot, clots, cloys, colts, cools, cooly, coots, cymol, locos, looms, loots, lotos, molto, molts, mools, moots, octyl, osmol, scoot, smolt, sooty, sotol, stool, tools, toyos. | |
-5 letters: clot, cloy, cols, colt, coly, cool, coos, coot, cost, cosy, cots, coys, cyst, loco, loom, loos, loot. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-l-m-o-o-o-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: cosmetology. | |
+4 letters: condylomatous, dichotomously, homosociality, polychotomies, polychotomous. | |
+5 letters: campylotropous, monocotyledons, ophthalmoscopy, trichotomously. | |
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