0 an operation in which the colon (= the lower and bigger part of the bowels) is cut and the cut end joined to a hole in the wall of the abdomen: --
The average net ingredient cost of prescribing a colostomy bag in 1992 was £1·84.
She wrote to me saying that she has a heart condition and that her husband has had a colostomy.
She has had 25 operations—a colostomy, operations to repair, operations to deal with complications.
People who have a permanent fistula are exempt from prescription charges, and this includes people who use colostomy bags.
Those who need colostomy bags receive them free.
This is what the diabetics, cancers, colostomies, epileptics and heart diseases have to read.
According to this analysis, the hospital cost of managing a perforated colon injury with a colostomy is almost twice as much as the cost of managing one with primary repair.
Of those who survived to discharge, colostomy patients were referred to home health care services four times more frequently than those who had a primary repair.
