Usually means: Surgical creation of bowel opening.
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  1. colostomy: Merriam-Webster
  2. colostomy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. colostomy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. colostomy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. colostomy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Colostomy, colostomy: Wordnik
  7. colostomy: Wiktionary
  8. colostomy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. colostomy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. colostomy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. colostomy: Dictionary.com
  12. colostomy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Colostomy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  15. colostomy: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
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  1. colostomy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. colostomy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Colostomy: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  6. Colostomy: Merck Manuals
  7. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
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  10. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
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  14. Colostomy: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  15. colostomy: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  16. colostomy: Medical dictionary
  17. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  18. Colostomy: Drug Medical Dictionary
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  1. colostomy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See colostomies as well.)

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noun:  (surgery) An incision into the colon to allow for drainage; the opening produced in such incision.

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