How to Use stoma in a Sentence

stoma

noun
  • When applied perfectly, the stoma emptied directly into the bag and didn’t leak.
    — Joe Manganiello, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
  • In heat, stomata tend to open to release water, essentially sweating.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Without the storage capacity of a colon, within minutes of eating anything, my body would immediately output waste through the stoma.
    — Joe Manganiello, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
  • After one treatment, Kang went to the emergency room when her colostomy stoma retracted, and a scan reportedly showed that the tumor had shrunk substantially.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2026
  • After being fitted with a stoma bag and diagnosed with two blood clots four weeks after the health scare, Felicity-Jo finally took her first steps in almost a month.
    — Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Her chances at having a baby only seemed to worsen in 2014, when a colorectal surgeon attempted to reposition her stoma — an opening in the abdomen through which waste exits the body — to make pregnancy possible, but the surgery was unsuccessful.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2026

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