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-stomy

-stomy suffix: a surgical procedure forming a hole for access, nutrition, or waste elimination.

Suffix

-stomy

  1. A surgical procedure forming a hole for access, nutrition, or waste elimination.

Forms of -stomy

alternative form-ostomy

Origin of -stomy

Possibly from stoma + -y.

Questions about -stomy

What does -stomy mean?
-stomy means a surgical procedure forming a hole for access, nutrition, or waste elimination.
What part of speech is -stomy?
-stomy is a suffix.

Words near -stomy in the dictionary

  1. -stigmine
  2. -stock
  3. -stodon
  4. -stomatous
  5. -stome
  6. -stomy
  7. -stress
  8. -strophy
  9. -style
  10. -styly
  11. -sy

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