Talk:Stoma (medicine)

Stoma vs. Ostomy
Some sources seem to use "stoma" for the opening and "ostomy" for the procedure (NIH, BUPA). However others use "stoma" and "ostomy" virtually interchangeably, with "ostomy" being the surgically created opening and "stoma" being the protruding ureter or bowel (UOAA, Colostomy Association). This does not seem to be a US/UK issue. Can anyone shed light on how and why these two conventions emerged? 84.144.67.124 (talk) 08:26, 29 June 2009 (UTC)


 * The procedure CONTAINS the suffix '-ostomy' but it's not "a kind of ostomy." That kind of backformation where suffixes are treated as part of compound words is the height of ignorance. Almost as bad as "__-holic" for addictions.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.70.113 (talk) 01:01, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
 * "-Ostomy" is etymologically related to "stoma", "to put a mouth in". In the other hand we have "-tomos", like in Scelerotomy, which means "to cut into" etymologically relate to "-temneim" like in anatomy.
 * For example Thoracostomy is "to put a mount" (a stoma) in the toracic cavity, an opening that conects a space with the toracic cavity. At the same time we have Thoracotomy "to cut into the torax" a surgical procedure that gives access to toracic cavity.
 * Tracheostomy: to connect the trachea with another space, tracheotomy: to cut into the trachea.
 * So on an so forth. 186.166.140.131 (talk) 01:41, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Surgical stomas vs. Stomata
I think the title of the article should be changed from "Stoma_(medicine)" to "Surgical stomas". The intro paragraph should be revised. Surgical stomas can be internal or external.

Note the MeSH definition: "[| Surgical Stomas]: Artificial openings created by a surgeon for therapeutic reasons. Most often this refers to openings from the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT through the ABDOMINAL WALL to the outside of the body. It can also refer to the two ends of a surgical anastomosis."

Wiki should follow [| NLM], high authority for American medical language. NLM differentiates between [| stomata] and [| Surgical stomas].

Also the plural form: NLM uses the plural stomas for artificial surgical therapeutic openings and the plural stomata for natural internal or external openings, i.e. [| Peritoneal stomata], [| Plant stomata].

There is also confusion with the wiki entry on natural stomata Stoma.-Yohananw (talk) 15:41, 25 October 2018 (UTC)