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A stoma is a surgically created opening that lets waste leave the body after illness or injury.
means A surgically created opening on the abdomen that connects an internal organ (like the intestine) to the outside of the body, usually for waste to pass into a pouch.
from From Greek 'stoma' meaning mouth or opening — the same root that gives us 'stomach.' Doctors borrowed the word directly for any small bodily orifice, natural or made, and it became the standard medical term once surgeons began creating these openings deliberately in procedures like colostomies.
- literal meaning
- greek for mouth, your bowel just learned to talk
- types
- colostomy, ileostomy, urostomy — different pipes, same honesty
- no nerve endings
- it cannot feel pain, only pressure and attitude
- plant version
- leaves have stomata too, breathing through tiny mouths