[
US
/ˈstoʊmə/
]
[ UK /stˈəʊmɐ/ ]
[ UK /stˈəʊmɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a mouth or mouthlike opening (especially one created by surgery on the surface of the body to create an opening to an internal organ)
- a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass
How To Use stoma In A Sentence
- Desiccated liver is approximately 80% protein and is easily broken down and absorbed by the stomach.
- Light pains in my chest, the indeterminable gurgle in my stomach, a swaying before my eyes. Books in 2009, #5
- Depardieu's flick-knife is stuck in his stomach, and the dying man's description of his attacker is pointedly applicable to Depardieu. Archive 2008-08-01
- Given the combination of ineffable beauty and extremely unpleasant sensations in my stomach and head, I would be quite content to die here.
- A good backstroker knows how many strokes to take when they see the flags before flipping over onto their stomachs for the flip turn.
- In some cases, the vomited milk may smell curdled because it has mixed with stomach acid.
- the fundus of the stomach
- The resemblance also of the human stomach to that of the orang-outang is greater than to that of any other animal. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- He himself bore them submissively for thirteen years; for six he suffered from lithiasis, and for seven years from stomatitis (or, as some say, six years from the former and seven from the latter). Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
- You shouldn't take the pills on an empty stomach.
