colostomía
Spanish, noun/kolostoˈmia/
colostomía is spelled C-O-L-O-S-T-O-M-Í-A (10 letters) and appears about once in every 13 million words in written Spanish, the 133,746th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Colostomía is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “colostomy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Abertura que se hace en el vientre para dar una vía de salida al colon, por ejemplo, para las operaciones que…”.
What does colostomía mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecolostomy
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Abertura que se hace en el vientre para dar una vía de salida al colon, por ejemplo, para las operaciones que apunten a curar un cáncer de colon o de ano.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of colostomía
- colostomías plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce colostomía?
- /kolostoˈmia/
- [ko.los.t̪oˈmi.a]
- [kolost̪oˈmia]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to colostomía
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is colostomía in Spanish?
colostomía appears about once in every 13 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).