an artificial opening for the release of urine, used when urination through the bladder and urethra is no longer possible due, for example, to surgery
Examples of 'urostomy' in a sentence
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A male patient with spina bifida and paraplegia, born in 1968, underwent urostomy in 1973.
Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Peter L. Hughes, Bakul M. Soni, Gurpreet Singh 2010, 'Ureteral Obstruction by the Vas Deferens after Urostomy', The Scientific World Journalhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2010.161. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)