How many points in Scrabble is ostomy worth? ostomy how many points in Words With Friends? What does ostomy mean? Get all these answers on this page.
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Is ostomy a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word ostomy is a Scrabble US word. The word ostomy is worth 11 points in Scrabble:
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Is ostomy a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word ostomy is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:
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Is ostomy a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word ostomy is a Words With Friends word. The word ostomy is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 50 words from ostomy according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
Back-formation from colostomy, ileostomy, gastrostomy, and similar terms.
ostomy (plural ostomies)
The conversion of the combining form -ostomy to yield the standalone noun ostomy began in the mid-20th century as medical jargon that was treated as too much a casualism for formal writing, but by the early 21st century it was well established even in formal register, and various respected dictionaries now enter it. Before this transition of acceptability, medical English already had a word for artificial bodily openings created surgically: stoma, directly from the New Latin, based on the ancient Greek. But today such an opening is just as likely to be called an ostomy as a stoma.