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-ostomy: Creating an Opening

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The suffix ostomy names the surgical creation of a permanent opening into the structure its root identifies.

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Colostomy is a surgical opening from the colon to the body surface.

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Otomy cuts and closes. Ostomy cuts and leaves an opening.