Usually means: Surgical creation of artificial opening.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. ostomy: Merriam-Webster
  2. ostomy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ostomy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ostomy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ostomy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ostomy, ostomy: Wordnik
  7. -ostomy, ostomy: Wiktionary
  8. ostomy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ostomy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Ostomy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. ostomy: Rhymezone
  12. ostomy: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  13. ostomy: FreeDictionary.org
  14. ostomy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. ostomy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. ostomy: Infoplease Dictionary
  17. ostomy: Dictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ostomy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. ostomy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ostomy: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  9. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  10. ostomy: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  11. -ostomy, ostomy: Medical dictionary
  12. Ostomy: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See ostomies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ostomy)

noun:  (surgery) A surgical procedure to provide an exit point for the waste of an organism.
noun:  (medicine) An exit point created by such surgical procedure.

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