(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.
Surgical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to surgeons or surgery; done by means of surgery; used in surgery; as, a surgical operation; surgical instruments.
Example Sentences:
(1) A report is presented of 6 surgically-treated cases of recurrent cervical carcinoma.
(2) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(3) However it is important to recognize these cysts so that correct surgical management is offered to the patient.
(4) All the women had vaginal ultrasound velocimetry studies in both mainstem uterine arteries through the parametrium before the surgical procedure and again after the procedure.
(5) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(6) In 1 of the 3, anterior capsular detachment was also demonstrated radiographically and confirmed surgically.
(7) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
(8) Cor triatriatum (CT) is a rare congenital defect, surgically correctable, and sometimes difficult to diagnose by cardiac catheterization.
(9) Differentiation between these two types of lesions is of utmost importance since the surgical approach will be different.
(10) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(11) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(12) We reviewed our 5-year surgical experience with undescended testes in 295 patients.
(13) Nine of the 12 long-term survivors showed lymph node metastasis and six of the 12 revealed cancer cells at the surgical margins.
(14) He also deals with the incidence, conservative and surgical treatment of osteo-arthrosis in old age and with the possibilities of its prevention.
(15) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
(16) Wilder Penfield's development of surgical methods for treating focal cerebral seizures, beginning with his early work in Montreal in 1928, is reviewed.
(17) Surgical removal was avoided without complications by detaching it with a ring stripper.
(18) A new surgical procedure for idiopathic priapism has been used successfully in patients.
(19) Schistosomal obstructive uropathy was studied by clinical, laboratory epidemiologic and pathologic analysis in 155 Egyptian patients treated surgically.
(20) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".