stoma
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Emma Greenwood is an internal pouch nurse specialist and has a stoma - she said she had faced similar problems at airports.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
"I have swallowed more dust than bread," he said in his living room, as he showed the stoma bag he now has to use.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
"I always say my stoma bag is just new accessory. It's just another bag and that was where the whole idea came from to like make covers for it and have it as an accessory."
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
One of Recondition's best-selling items are stoma bag covers.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
Each of these openings is called a stoma.
From Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf by Jane H. Newell
She also has two stomas in place for life because much of her bladder and bowel have had to be removed.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024
"Doctors have told me that if they'd caught it sooner, I wouldn't have ended up the way I am, living with two stomas and being in early menopause at the age of 31."
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2024
The model, who made it to the final of the BBC's hit reality series, said her "main goal" after the show was to raise awareness of disabilities and break the taboo around stomas.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2024
The Traitors finalist Mollie Pearce says her "main goal" after the show is to raise awareness of disabilities and break the taboo around stomas.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2024
She says the reaction from her sto-mates, people who also have stomas, to her being on the show and modelling has been "amazing".
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2024
Meanwhile, carbon dioxide enters the leaf through tiny openings called stomata.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
When leaves release water vapor through their stomata, they start the process of evapotranspiration, which draws water up to the tallest part of a plant, like a beverage being sucked through a straw.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Its stomata, the tiny pores that normally take in CO2 and release oxygen during the day, remain closed while the sun is up, reducing water loss through evaporation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
This probably happens because the bladder cells partially cover the stomata on the plant's leaves, a point of entry for many bacterial invaders.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2023
Transpiration is loss of water by the plant by evaporation, chiefly from the minute pores or stomata on the leaves.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
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