how to pronounce stoma

/ˈstəʊ.mə/

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stoma is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of stoma in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… to a stoma whereas if I had these in an …”

meanings of stoma

noun:

One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass.
An artificial anus.
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.
A mouthlike opening, such as the oral cavity of a nematode.

stoma frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word stoma occurs in english on average 0.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics stoma can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that stoma can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;