Crossword clues for colostomy
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 An incision into the colon to allow for drainage. 2 The opening produced in such incision.
WordNet
n. a surgical operation that creates an opening from the colon to the surface of the body to function as an anus
Wikipedia
A colostomy is a surgical procedure in which an opening ( stoma) is formed by drawing the healthy end of the large intestine or colon through an incision in the anterior abdominal wall and suturing it into place. This opening, in conjunction with the attached stoma appliance, provides an alternative channel for feces to leave the body. It may be reversible or irreversible depending on the circumstances.
Usage examples of "colostomy".
LPNs can give tube feedings, suction patients, do sterile dressings and colostomy care, monitor IVs, and initiate cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques, although in such an emergency an LPN is expected to call someone else to follow through.
A woman came in to Eight Cook for tests, and the doctors told her she had cancer and needed a colostomy.
For one thing, Dean gets really upset with nurses who wear gloves to do colostomy care.
Grosser than tap water being filtered through surgical dressings and colostomy bags?
Doctor Kissinger, the famed shuttle surgeon, who will leave tomorrow for Johannesburg to perform a colostomy on the President of South Af, Liz?
Louisiana where guards beat a I 7-year-old boy so severely that part of his intestines leaked into his colostomy bag.
Broken bones will heal, and hey, who would mind having a colostomy, really?
To the left of the entrance were tidy displays of dental wares, feminine hygiene products, hot water bottles and heating pads, corn remedies, body braces of divers kinds, and colostomy supplies.
There are colostomy bags and projectile vomiting and cirrhotic discharges and missing limbs and misshapen heads and incontinence and Kaposi's Sarcoma and suppurating sores and all different levels of enfeeblement and impulse-control-deficit and damage.
He had undergone a complete colostomy after being diagnosed with colon cancer.
Cops got shot, drug dealers got shot, pregnant teenage girls got shot, an old lady got one straight through the colostomy bag –.
And she thought she could detect the liquid bulk of a colostomy bag under his jacket.
Tubes and wires of an IV and an electrocardiogram sprang from his body like thin exterior organs and the lump by his hip beneath the bedsheets suggested he was also hooked up to a colostomy bag.
During the hasty, agonizing walk from the box to the hill crest he had been imagining passing out from loss of blood, and then at best waking up in a hospital bed, his body picadored with drains and IV tubes and a colostomy bag.
In Preston's inner world, where he lived far more than not, he called his cousin the Dirtbag because, for almost two years between the ages of seven and eight, Brandon had required a colostomy bag until a series of complex surgeries ultimately resolved a bowel problem.