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In botany, a stoma (also stomate; plural stomata) is a tiny opening or pore, found mostly on the undersurface of a plant leaf, and used for gas exchange. Air containing carbon dioxide and oxygen enters the plant through these openings where it gets used in photosynthesis and respiration. Waste oxygen produced by photosynthesis in the chlorenchyma cells of the leaf interior exits through these same openings. ...
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A surgically created opening from an area inside the body to the outside.
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An organ that is part of the digestive system. It helps in the digestion of food by mixing it with digestive juices and churning it into a thin liquid.
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(Gr. stoma, mouth; pl: stomata) 1. Any of various small openings or pores in an animal body, especially an opening resembling a mouth in various invertebrates.
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| stomata |
Tiny pores on the underside of the leaves (stomota-plural for stoma). Carbon dioxide and oxygen enter and leave the plant through these tiny pores.
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