What's the difference between stola and stoma?

Stola


Definition:

  • (n.) A long garment, descending to the ankles, worn by Roman women.

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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.

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