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parastomal

parastomal adjective: around a stoma.

Adjective

parastomal (not comparable)

  1. Around a stoma.
    • Only one case of gallbladder volvulus within an incisional hernia has been previously described, but it was a parastomal herniation (Rosenblum et al. 2013).2015 July 1, Pierre Goubault et al., “Gallbladder torsion within incisional hernia: an original cholecystitis”, in SpringerPlus, volume 4, →DOI

Origin of parastomal

From para- + stomal.

Questions about parastomal

What does parastomal mean?
Parastomal means around a stoma.
What part of speech is parastomal?
Parastomal is an adjective.

Words near parastomal in the dictionary

  1. parasthesia
  2. parastichies
  3. parastichy
  4. parastigma
  5. parastigmatic
  6. parastomal
  7. parastrachiid
  8. parastrachiids
  9. parastratotype
  10. parastratotypes
  11. parastriatal

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