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Surgical procedure that creates an artificial opening for the elimination of bodily wastes
Answer for the clue "Surgical procedure that creates an artificial opening for the elimination of bodily wastes ", 6 letters:
ostomy
Word definitions for ostomy in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1957, abstracted from colostomy , etc.; ultimately from Modern Latin stoma "opening, orifice," from Greek stoma "mouth" (see stoma ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. surgical procedure that creates an artificial opening for the elimination of bodily wastes
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context surgery English) A surgical procedure to provide an exit point for the waste of an organism. 2 (context medicine English) An exit point created by such surgical procedure.
Usage examples of ostomy.
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