The Cancer Dictionary
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Stoma
An ‘exit' for bowel motions if the bowel can't be joined properly after surgery. The surgeon makes a small hole in your abdomen, brings one end of the bowel out through the hole and sews it to the skin. This makes a stoma or ‘ostomy'.