英和和英

名詞

ostomy (複数形 ostomies)

1. (surgery) A surgical procedure to provide an exit point for the waste of an organism.
2. (medicine) An exit point created by such surgical procedure.

使用する際の注意点

The conversion of the combining form -ostomy to yield the standalone noun ostomy began in the mid-20th century as medical jargon that was treated as too much a casualism for formal writing, but by the early 21st century it was well established even in formal register, and various respected dictionaries now enter it. Before this transition of acceptability, medical English already had a word for artificial bodily openings created surgically: stoma, directly from the New Latin, based on the ancient Greek. But today such an opening is just as likely to be called an ostomy as a stoma.

同意語

• stoma

派生語

• ostomate

関連する語

• stoma
• -stomy
• -ostomy
• colostomy
• ileostomy