Artificial respiration can save a life whenever breathing has stopped but heartbeat has not, as in near-drowning, electric shock, choking, gas poisoning, drug poisoning, injury to the chest, or suffocation from other causes. It is also administered along with other procedures in cases of cardiac arrest.
-stomy. a combining form used in the names of surgical operations that involve the establishment of an artificial opening into or between the part or parts specified by the initial element: colostomy. -stomia, derivative of stoma stÃ³ma. Mouth-see, -stome y ]. 3
2. stoma-a mouth or mouthlike opening (especially one created by surgery on the surface of the body to create an opening to an internal organ). colostomy-a surgical operation that creates an opening from the colon to the surface of the body to function as an anus.toma. n, pl stomata (ËstÉÊmÉtÉ; ËstÉm-; stÉÊËmÉËtÉ). 1. (Botany) botany an epidermal pore, present in large numbers in plant leaves, that controls the passage of gases into and out of a plant. 2. (Zoology) zoology anatomy a mouth or mouthlike part.