plural ostomies
: an operation (such as a colostomy) to create an artificial passage for bodily elimination
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The couple traveled from Auburn, Alabama, to the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, where Register underwent surgery for a temporary ostomy bag and began chemotherapy, per the SWNS report.
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Reem Amro, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2025
Instead, Dimas and her colleague Roxana Reyna, a wound ostomy nurse practitioner at Driscoll, used a medical-grade honey solution to clean out the wound.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 2 June 2025
If the skin around the stoma is irritated, sprinkle some ostomy protective powder and gently blot it.
—Jamin Brahmbhatt, Verywell Health, 12 Feb. 2025
Sidhwa stitched up the boy’s rectum and created an ostomy—a hole that exits the abdomen—to allow his digestive tract to heal.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
After the surgery, an ostomy nurse will be assigned to teach you how to care for your stoma and change your urostomy bag or catheter.
—Jamin Brahmbhatt, Verywell Health, 12 Feb. 2025
The original plan was getting an ostomy bag, chemo to shrink the tumors and then going back in to reverse the ostomy.
—Shannin Desroches, People.com, 20 Feb. 2025
Apply a thick ring of ostomy paste around the seal of two-piece systems.
—Jamin Brahmbhatt, Verywell Health, 12 Feb. 2025
She was fitted with a stoma in her stomach, which provides an external way for waste to leave the body, where it’s collected in an ostomy bag.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025
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Reem Amro, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2025
Instead, Dimas and her colleague Roxana Reyna, a wound ostomy nurse practitioner at Driscoll, used a medical-grade honey solution to clean out the wound.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 2 June 2025
If the skin around the stoma is irritated, sprinkle some ostomy protective powder and gently blot it.
—Jamin Brahmbhatt, Verywell Health, 12 Feb. 2025
Sidhwa stitched up the boy’s rectum and created an ostomy—a hole that exits the abdomen—to allow his digestive tract to heal.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
After the surgery, an ostomy nurse will be assigned to teach you how to care for your stoma and change your urostomy bag or catheter.
—Jamin Brahmbhatt, Verywell Health, 12 Feb. 2025
The original plan was getting an ostomy bag, chemo to shrink the tumors and then going back in to reverse the ostomy.
—Shannin Desroches, People.com, 20 Feb. 2025
Apply a thick ring of ostomy paste around the seal of two-piece systems.
—Jamin Brahmbhatt, Verywell Health, 12 Feb. 2025
She was fitted with a stoma in her stomach, which provides an external way for waste to leave the body, where it’s collected in an ostomy bag.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025
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“Ostomy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ostomy. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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ostomy
noun
os·to·my
ˈäs-tə-mē 
plural ostomies
: an operation (as a colostomy, ileostomy, or urostomy) to create an artificial passage for bodily elimination
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