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n. Botany One of the minute pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass. Also called stomate.

n. Anatomy A small aperture in the surface of a membrane.

n. A surgically constructed opening, especially one in the abdominal wall that permits the passage of waste after a colostomy or ileostomy.

n. Zoology A mouthlike opening, such as the oral cavity of a nematode.

n. One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass.

n. A small opening in a membrane; a surgically constructed opening, especially one in the abdominal wall that permits the passage of waste after a colostomy or ileostomy.

n. A mouthlike opening, such as the oral cavity of a nematode.

n. An artificial anus.

n. One of the minute apertures between the cells in many serous membranes.

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n. The minute breathing pores of leaves or other organs opening into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile cells.

n. The line of dehiscence of the sporangium of a fern. It is usually marked by two transversely elongated cells. See Illust. of Sporangium.

n. A stigma. See Stigma, n., 6 (a) & (b).

n. In zoology, a mouth or ingestive opening; an oral orifice; an ostium or ostiole: chiefly used of small or simple apertures, as a cytostome; hence, also, a small opening of any kind through which something may pass in or out; a pore.

n. In botany, a minute orifice or slit in the epidermis of leaves, etc., which opens directly into air-cavities or intercellular spaces that pervade the interior, and through which free ingress and egress of air take place; a breathing-pore.

n. In Sweden borg's philosophy, a cubical figure with hollowed surfaces, being the figure of the interstices of spheres arranged in what Swedenborg calls the fixed quadrilateral pyramidal position, supposed to be that natural to the spherical particles of water.

n. a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass

n. a mouth or mouthlike opening (especially one created by surgery on the surface of the body to create an opening to an internal organ)

"If the stoma is at least six weeks old, either pull the tube out a little or push it in a little to match the previous length measurement."

orifice    porta    opening   

stomata    sporangium    stigma   

Oklahoma    Roma    Soma    Sonoma    Tacoma    aroma    blastoma    carcinoma    coma    diploma   

suctioning    dirt-poor    trion    eep    draggin    intubation    bile-duct    aspirate    eidenai    gynt