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Definition: Ostomy |
OstomyNoun1. Surgical procedure that creates an artificial opening for the elimination of bodily wastes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ostomy" was first used: 1957. (references) |
"Ostomy" is a common misspelling or typo for: Bosomy, Sooty, Stoma, Stomp, Stony, Stormy. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Surgical construction of an artificial opening (stoma) for external fistulization of a duct or vessel by insertion of a tube with or without a supportive stent. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Ostomy |
| Specialty definitions using "ostomy": Enterostomal Therapy ♦ Ostomate ♦ Proctocolectomy, Restorative. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In an ostomy, the doctor takes out the diseased part of the intestine. (references) | |
However, children who have been very sick may first need surgery called an ostomy. (references) | ||
Older children will be more comfortable, too, but they may have some trouble getting used to an ostomy. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ireland | A broad range of products are manufactured in Ireland including drug-delivery pumps, vascular and endoscopic devices, orthopaedic implants, ostomy products, pacemakers, diagnostic kits and contact lenses. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; 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 | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | stoma. (various references) |
| Modern Latin | 1500-Modern | stoma. (various references) |
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Words ending with "ostomy": colostomy, enterostomy, tracheostomy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "m-o-o-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: moots, sooty, toyos. | |
-2 letters: moos, moot, most, mots, oots, soot, toms, toom, toyo, toys. | |
-3 letters: moo, mos, mot, oms, oot, som, sot, soy, sty, tom, too, toy, yom. | |
-4 letters: mo, my, om, os, oy, so, to, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "m-o-o-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: myosote, smoothy, tomboys. | |
+2 letters: morosity, myosotes, myosotis, myotomes, smoothly, toponyms, vasotomy. | |
+3 letters: astronomy, colostomy, hypostome, monocytes, monostely, monotypes, motorways, myomatous, myotonias, osmometry, pomposity, tomboyish, tommyrots. | |
+4 letters: actomyosin, amyotonias, antonymous, cyclostome, dictyosome, dynamotors, episiotomy, gastronomy, hypostomes, moneyworts, mosquitoey, mycologist, mycotoxins, myosotises, myxomatous, osmolality, osmolarity, sociometry, somatology, somatotype, timorously, toilsomely, toponymies, toponymist, xylotomies. | |
+5 letters: actomyosins, amoebocytes, astrocytoma, autosomally, compositely, cosmetology, cyclostomes, cytochromes, dictyosomes, enterostomy, etymologies, etymologise, etymologist, homozygotes, hysterotomy, loathsomely, momentously, monocrystal, monstrosity, monstrously, motorcycles, mycetozoans, mycologists, myelomatous, myoinositol, mythologers, mythologies, mythologist, mythopoeias, myxomatoses, myxomatosis, osmotically, photosystem, polyglotism, protoxylems, psychomotor, somatotypes, somnolently, stylopodium, synaptosome, toothsomely, toponymists, tropomyosin, trypanosome. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 73 74 6F 6D 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ... - --- -- -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O s t o m y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0073 0074 006F 006D 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)498586817991 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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