Usually means: Person with a surgically created stoma.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. ostomate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. ostomate: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ostomate: Wiktionary
  4. ostomate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. ostomate: Dictionary.com
  6. ostomate: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  7. ostomate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ostomate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. ostomate: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ostomate)

▸ noun:  A person who has had an ostomy, a surgical operation to create an opening in the body for the discharge of body wastes.

Similar:
ostomy, urostomy, stoma, neostomy, enterostomy, ozostomia, sigmoidostomy, cystostomy, ureterostomy, esophagostoma, more...

Opposite:
non-ostomate, intact, unaltered

Types:
colostomate, ileostomate, urostomate, jejunostomate, more...

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Similar:
ostomy, urostomy, stoma, neostomy, enterostomy, ozostomia, sigmoidostomy, cystostomy, ureterostomy, esophagostoma, more...

Opposite:
non-ostomate, intact, unaltered

Types:
colostomate, ileostomate, urostomate, jejunostomate, more...



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