What's the difference between pass and stoma?

Pass


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc.
  • (v. i.) To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands.
  • (v. i.) To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die.
  • (v. i.) To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily.
  • (v. i.) To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly.
  • (v. i.) To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation.
  • (v. i.) To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress.
  • (v. i.) To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.
  • (v. i.) To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along.
  • (v. i.) To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass.
  • (v. i.) To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.
  • (v. i.) To take heed; to care.
  • (v. i.) To go through the intestines.
  • (v. i.) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed.
  • (v. i.) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.
  • (v. i.) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump.
  • (v. i.) In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.
  • (v. t.) To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc.
  • (v. t.) To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
  • (v. t.) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
  • (v. t.) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
  • (v. t.) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate.
  • (v. t.) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand.
  • (v. t.) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.
  • (v. t.) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law.
  • (v. t.) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money.
  • (v. t.) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.
  • (v. t.) To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.
  • (v. t.) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
  • (v. t.) To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.
  • (v. i.) An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass.
  • (v. i.) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
  • (v. i.) A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.
  • (v. i.) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.
  • (v. i.) State of things; condition; predicament.
  • (v. i.) Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.
  • (v. i.) Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.
  • (v. i.) Estimation; character.
  • (v. i.) A part; a division.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Samples are hydrolyzed with Ba (OH)2, and the hydrolysate is passed through a Dowex-50 column to remove the salts and soluble carbohydrates.
  • (2) "They wanted to pass it almost like a secret negotiation," she said.
  • (3) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
  • (4) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
  • (5) Ten or 4% of the administered parasites passed in the feces during the 3 days following the first or second infection, but 32% after the third infection.
  • (6) David Hamilton tells me: “The days of westerners leading expeditions to Nepal will pass.
  • (7) Their narrowed processes pass at a common site through the muscle layer and above this layer again slightly widen and project above the neighbouring tegument.
  • (8) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
  • (9) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
  • (10) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
  • (11) Approximately 50% of a bolus injection of 125I-ANP was removed during a single pass through the lungs compared with the intravascular marker 14C-dextran.
  • (12) The New York Times also alleged that the Met had not passed full details about how many people were victims of the illegal practice to the CPS because it has a history of cooperation with News International titles.
  • (13) To evaluate the acute changes in left ventricular (LV) performance before and immediately after percutaneous aortic valvuloplasty, 25 patients underwent first-pass radionuclide angiocardiography for construction of pressure-volume loops.
  • (14) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
  • (15) The resolution must be passed by both houses but cannot be amended.
  • (16) The frequency spectra of transmission coefficients for ultrasound passing through a sheet of gas-filled micropores have been measured using incident waves with amplitudes up to 2.4 x 10(4) Pa.
  • (17) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
  • (18) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
  • (19) This Doppler echocardiographic study of patients with a dual chamber pacemaker was undertaken to assess the changes in mitral and aortic flow induced by passing from the double stimulation to the atrial detection mode.
  • (20) Eleven patients spontaneously passed the calculus, ten prior to delivery and one patient postpartum.

Stoma


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the minute apertures between the cells in many serous membranes.
  • (n.) The minute breathing pores of leaves or other organs opening into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile cells.
  • (n.) The line of dehiscence of the sporangium of a fern. It is usually marked by two transversely elongated cells. See Illust. of Sporangium.
  • (n.) A stigma. See Stigma, n., 6 (a) & (b).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Follow-up studies up to 2 years postoperatively revealed satisfactorally functioning stomas in all of the patients.
  • (2) This surgical procedure involves removing the penile urethra and creating a permanent stoma between the skin and pelvic urethra.
  • (3) Both types of stoma were demonstrated objectively to defunction the distal bowel almost completely.
  • (4) Emergency stoma formation seems to be associated with the highest complication rates, probably because of suboptimal stoma placement.
  • (5) Acceptance of the stoma by family and friends was good and there were no major difficulties in practising sports and other hobbies.
  • (6) A universal ventilation laser fiberoptic tracheoscope has been developed for use in endoscopic treatment of patients with obstructing benign and malignant lesions of the subglottis-cervicotrachea and laryngectomy tracheal stoma.
  • (7) The method has been developed by the authors in view of the prevalence of strictures involving the terminal ureter and the stoma after unintubated cutaneous ureterostomy in case of a normal ureteral lumen.
  • (8) In both groups the patients developed post-operative pharyngo-cutaneous fistulae in approximately one third of the cases, and we found no obvious difference in the stoma's ability to shrink in the two groups.
  • (9) The procedure offers a choice of locations of the reservoir and stoma in most patients.
  • (10) Patients 60 years of age or older tolerate ileostomy well, but care of the stoma can cause problems.
  • (11) No patients with small bowel localization required a permanent stoma.
  • (12) The late complication in 3 cases was urinary incontinence of the efferent nipple valve with difficulty in catheterization of the stoma.
  • (13) In GPL mechanical fractures such as pouch volume and stoma size are of great importance, which is in accordance with earlier theories.
  • (14) A tapered distal ileal segment with a catheterizable abdominal stoma provided full continence in all 10 patients.
  • (15) Patients initially presenting with rectal involvement or perianal fistulas were prone to need a stoma during the course of their disease while intraabdominal fistulas, abscesses, age, sex, and longstanding disease where of no prognostic significance.
  • (16) Although only positive metabolic changes have been registered, we feel that gastroplasty, which is not without early postoperative complications and has a failure rate of about 30%, cannot be generally recommended until the problem of postoperative dilation of the stoma has been successfully solved.
  • (17) Diversion with a continent caecal reservoir was associated with fewer stoma-related problems and seemed to allow the patients greater freedom to continue activities such as sport, travel and social life.
  • (18) But the insertion of silicone T tube through the laryngeal stoma provided a satisfactory result for airway problem.
  • (19) Nipple stomas of at least 2 cm height were found to resist back-flow into the conduit better than any flat stoma.
  • (20) Between January 1, 1982 and June 30, 1987 a total of 122 patients suffering colorectal cancer (n = 88) or diverticulitis of the colon (n = 24) underwent surgery for construction of a transient defunctioning stoma.