Sentence examples for ottomy from inspiring English sources
Once the reason for the ostomy has been eliminated, the cut ends of the intestine are rejoined in a second surgical procedure.
I am a person with an ostomy bag".
Skye had a tough recovery from her ostomy surgery, taking seven months rather than the usual four weeks.
Her critiques of bags and other equipment are heeded by the medical sector, and her feedback led to the world's biggest ostomy bag maker, Coloplast, changing its designs.
Ostomy, (from Latin ostium, "mouth"), any procedure in which an artificial stoma, or opening, is surgically created; the term is also used for the opening itself.
A temporary ostomy may be maintained in place by naturally forming adhesions between the loop of intestine and the mesentery, a membrane lining the abdomen, and by performing sutures.
A rarer type of ostomy, such as the esophagostomy or the tracheostomy, is performed to introduce substances into the body or to aid breathing.
Usually ostomies are created through the abdominal wall to allow the discharge of bodily wastes when disease or injury has incapacitated a normal excretory channel.
Ostomies may be temporary, to relieve strain on excretory organs damaged by disease, abdominal injury, or surgery, or they may be permanent, to replace normal excretory channels that are congenitally missing or that must be removed as treatment for cancer or another debilitating intestinal disease.
Chair, Friends of St. John's Hospice and president, International Ostomy Association.
