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
She now lives with a stoma and needs regular monitoring.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 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
Now, a charity wants better training for airport staff so people with stomas are treated with "dignity" and "respect".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
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 there is a huge stigma around fistulas and stomas in the Kenyan culture.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2023
Gill Castle swam mostly in the dark from Dover to France in 14 hours to raise awareness of birth injures and people with stomas.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2023
She has undergone 16 separate surgeries and has two stomas and catheter.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2023
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
As the research team explained, "Traditionally, we've had to choose between seeing the stomata or measuring their function."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 7, 2026
The findings published in Plant Physiology found the peak closure of stomata is achieved within a time frame of 24 to 30 hours.
From Science Daily ● May 3, 2024
A, B, Section of Leaf of Potato with sporangiophores of Phytophthora infestans passing through the stomata D, on the under surface of the leaf.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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