stoma
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She said: "Seeing stoma bags that are glittery and frilly it shows people that we're not just patients we're actually people."
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
Her illness had led to her pulling off her stoma bag that collects bodily waste from the abdomen.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025
Using her large social media following, Lucy says she is determined to raise awareness of what it's like to go to festivals and other big events with a stoma bag, or other accessibility needs.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025
Lucy's condition means she has additional access needs and requires a clean space to change her stoma bag, as well as access to disabled toilets.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025
Each of these openings is called a stoma.
From Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf by Newell, Jane H.
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
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
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
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
This limitation matters because stomata respond quickly to changes in light, temperature, humidity and carbon dioxide levels.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 7, 2026
As carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere increase, plants may need to open their stomata less frequently, leading to decreased transpiration and preserving more groundwater.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2024
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
But when the air and soil are so dry that they can’t meet demand, a tree will eventually close the stomata, or pores, on its leaves to avoid losing precious water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2023
The result is that a current of air is drawn through the stomata into the leaf, and then out of the leaf into the cavity of the porometer.
From Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Darwin, Francis, Sir
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