Stoma

Definition: Stoma

Stoma

Noun

1. A minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem.

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stoma" was first used: 1684. (references)

Etymology: Stoma \Sto"ma\, noun; plural Stomata. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression mouth.]. (Websters 1913)

Biology & Biotechnology

Health

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Stoma

Crosswords: Stoma

German (stoma), Italian (stoma), Papiamen (stomach).

Books

• A Stoma is for Life (reference)

• An introduction to stoma therapy: a series of lectures given to members of the Ileostomy Association at the Hospital Centre, London (reference)

• Holistic Stoma Care (reference)

• Ileostomy Handbook: Stoma Care and Management Techniques (reference)

• Living with a Stoma (Common Problems) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Health

The hole is called a stoma. (references)

Stool goes into a bag attached to the skin around the stoma. (references)

The doctor connects the top part of the intestine to the stoma. (references)

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Expression using "stoma": Stoma size. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏الثغير فتحة صغيرة في أحد الحيوانات. (various references)

Danish

stoma (mouth, opening), spalteåbning (stomate), mund (mouth), aabning (aperture, bone, mouth, opening, opening mouth, orifice, os, osmium, passage). (various references)

Dutch

stoma (mouth, opening), huidmondje (stomate). (various references)

Finnish

ilmarako (air gap, gap, stomata, stomate). (various references)

French

stomate (stomate). (various references)

German

stoma (mouth, opening, stomate). (various references)

Greek 

στόμα (maw, mouth, mouthpiece, mug). (various references)

Italian

stoma (mouth, opening, stomate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

気�" . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

き�"う (armor, armour, breath control, breathing exercise, calling at aport, chi kung, cleverness, climate, contribution, contrivance, drafting, eccentricities, homeward voyage or flight, horseback riding, mechanism, organization, qigong, remarkable effect, returning to port, returning to school, season, setting to work, spirit cultivation, stopping at a port, traveller's journal, trick, you). (various references)

Pig Latin

omastay

Portuguese

orifício (aperture, boring, eyelet, perforation, venthole), estoma (stomate), boca (aperture, beginning, entrance, gob, jaw, jaws, kisser, lips, maw, mouthpiece, orifice, outfall, socket), abertura (access, aperture, bay, breach, cage, candor, candour, chink, crevice, gap, hack, highroad crossing, hole, jaws, loophole, maw, openness, overture, passage, rent, rift, slit, slot, splay, vent, window, yawn). (various references)

Spanish

estoma (stomata, stomate). (various references)

Swedish

stoma (stomate), klyvöppning (stomate). (various references)

Turkish

gözenek (pore, stigma), ağız (accent, beak, beestings, brim, brink, chop, cutting edge, debouchment, dialect, edge, embouchure, gob, jaw, jaws, keen edge, kisser, lip, mouth, muzzle, opening, oral, orifice, outlet, potato trap, trap, vent, ventage). (various references)

Ukrainian

устячко. (various references)

stoma. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "stoma": stomach, stomachache, stomachaches, stomached, stomacher, stomachers, stomachic, stomachics, stomaching, stomachs, stomachy, stomal, stomas, stomata, stomatal, stomate, stomates, stomatic, stomatitides, stomatitis, stomatitises, stomatopod, stomatopods. (additional references)

Words ending with "stoma": blastoma, glioblastoma, medulloblastoma, neuroblastoma, retinoblastoma, scyphistoma. (additional references)

Words containing "stoma": accustomation, accustomations, blastomas, blastomata, chrestomathies, chrestomathy, customarily, customariness, customarinesses, customary, enterostomal, glioblastomas, glioblastomata, medulloblastomas, medulloblastomata, neuroblastomas, neuroblastomata, retinoblastomas, retinoblastomata, scyphistomae, scyphistomas, uncustomarily, uncustomary. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stoma" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atoma, Atouma, Estoban, osteoma, Ostomy, ptfma, Sataome, Schlomo, scoma, shoma, somat, somga, somi, stamma, stana, stemi, stemra, stemu, stima, stoa, stoai, stoga, stom, stomac, stomak, stomb, stome, stomic, stopa, Storma, Stoway, stuca, stuka, svoja, tmoa, toma, tomma, Tsamai. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: atoms, moats.

-1 letter: atom, mast, mats, moas, moat, most, mots, oast, oats, soma, stoa, tams, taos, toms.

-2 letters: mas, mat, moa, mos, mot, oat, oms, sat, som, sot, tam, tao, tas, tom.

-3 letters: am, as, at, ma, mo, om, os, so, ta, to.

+1 letter: almost, magots, mascot, matzos, smalto, somata, stomal, stomas, stroma, tomans.

+2 letters: aftmost, amatols, amongst, amorist, amosite, amounts, atomics, atomies, atomise, atomism, atomist, bombast, comates, combats, diatoms, fantoms, fathoms, flotsam, formats, impasto, maestro, maggots, mahouts, maltols, maltose, manitos, marmots, mascots, mastoid, matrons, matzohs, mortals, mortars, osmatic, osteoma, ostmark, outmans, outswam, postman, scotoma, sfumato, smaltos, somatic, somital, stardom, stomach, stomata, stomate, stromal, subatom, tampons, tombacs, tombaks, tomcats, topmast, transom, tsardom, twasome, wombats.