Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Surgical construction of an artificial excretory opening, as a colostomy or ileostomy.

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  • noun surgery A surgical procedure to provide an exit point for the waste of an organism.
  • noun medicine An exit point created by such surgical procedure.

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  • noun surgical procedure that creates an artificial opening for the elimination of bodily wastes

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From (col)ostomy.]

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Back-formation from colostomy.

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Examples

  • An ostomy is a hidden disability until our clothes are off; therefore, it may help to find a comfortable way to tell potential partners before sexual relations begin.

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • Funny thing,,,Taking off my half full ostomy bag and dropping it on the workers desk and asking if that looked like no medical need while it splattered it contents all over her paper work…. got my benifits back within the hour,

    GAU and ADATSA Cuts | Seattle Metblogs 2009

  • But then it started,I was unable to find work due to my ostomy bag

    GAU and ADATSA Cuts | Seattle Metblogs 2009

  • Convatec, based in Skillman, N.J., is a medical-technology business that manufactures wound-care and ostomy products.

    Bristol-Myers to Sell 2008

  • Anyway, Tracy wants me to speak at an ostomy conference of some sort at Shrewsbury in September.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Glyn Davies 2007

  • Anyway, Tracy wants me to speak at an ostomy conference of some sort at Shrewsbury in September.

    A view from Rural Wales Glyn Davies 2007

  • Smokers are two to five time more likely than non-smokers to end up wearing an ostomy bag to hold their pee.

    Smokin' Miss Snark 2005

  • She has an ostomy pouch and feeding tube attached to her for nutrition as she slowly gets used to eating again.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2012

  • Liberator's revenue primarily comes from supplying products to meet the rapidly growing requirements of general medical supplies, personal mobility aids, diabetes, urological, ostomy and mastectomy patients.

    Liberator Medical Reports Record Annual Net Revenues of $40.9 Million for Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2010 - Yahoo! Finance 2011

  • The Company also sells certain ostomy and wound and scar care products and other brands of urological products into the European marketplace.

    unknown title 2011

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