Stoma
noun
A small opening, like a mouth, in a plant or an animal that allows gas or liquid to pass in or out.
Through the stoma, a plant breathes in carbon dioxide and breathes out oxygen.
Often appears as...
- stoma opening
- close stoma
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Technical
noun
An artificial opening made in the body of a person for medical reasons, to allow fluid or waste to leave the body.
After the surgery, the patient had a stoma to remove waste from the body.
Often appears as...
- colostomy stoma
- stoma care
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A small opening, like a mouth, in a plant or an animal that allows gas or liquid to pass in or out.
Through the stoma, a plant breathes in carbon dioxide and breathes out oxygen.
Often appears as...
- stoma opening
- close stoma
Usage tips
Technical
noun
An artificial opening made in the body of a person for medical reasons, to allow fluid or waste to leave the body.
After the surgery, the patient had a stoma to remove waste from the body.
Often appears as...
- colostomy stoma
- stoma care
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Plant Breathing
Like nostrils for plants, stomata manage gas exchange for photosynthesis.
Botanists study how stoma size changes in response to sunlight.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-human Usage
Stoma is specifically for plant and animal biology contexts, not human anatomy.
Researchers observed how the guards cells control the stoma in leaves.
Pro Tip 3/3Climate Connection
Stomata can indicate environmental conditions and are important in climate studies.
Ancient plant stomata suggest a high carbon dioxide concentration in the past.
Pro Tip 1/3Plant Breathing
Like nostrils for plants, stomata manage gas exchange for photosynthesis.
Botanists study how stoma size changes in response to sunlight.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-human Usage
Stoma is specifically for plant and animal biology contexts, not human anatomy.
Researchers observed how the guards cells control the stoma in leaves.
Pro Tip 3/3Climate Connection
Stomata can indicate environmental conditions and are important in climate studies.
Ancient plant stomata suggest a high carbon dioxide concentration in the past.
Pro Tip 1/3Plant Breathing
Like nostrils for plants, stomata manage gas exchange for photosynthesis.
Botanists study how stoma size changes in response to sunlight.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-human Usage
Stoma is specifically for plant and animal biology contexts, not human anatomy.
Researchers observed how the guards cells control the stoma in leaves.
Pro Tip 3/3Climate Connection
Stomata can indicate environmental conditions and are important in climate studies.
Ancient plant stomata suggest a high carbon dioxide concentration in the past.
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Video examples
Fish With Transparent...
the macro pen of micro stoma known as the barreleye fish is small and dark with large fins a tiny mouth an unusual barrel eyes under a transparent dome the two green spheres in the video are the lenses of its tubular eyes the eyes are
Video examples
Feeling the Force of...
oily liquid the sounds that the sperm whale generates are bizarrely created at the front of the nose traveled back through the stoma Ceti until they hit this portion of the skull which is shaped like a satellite dish a parabola
Video examples
Fish With Transparent...
the macro pen of micro stoma known as the barreleye fish is small and dark with large fins a tiny mouth an unusual barrel eyes under a transparent dome the two green spheres in the video are the lenses of its tubular eyes the eyes are
Video examples
Feeling the Force of...
oily liquid the sounds that the sperm whale generates are bizarrely created at the front of the nose traveled back through the stoma Ceti until they hit this portion of the skull which is shaped like a satellite dish a parabola
Example 1 of 2
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