• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.19-27
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• 2016

The skin barrier is an important part of an ostomy product, holding the ostomy bag in place and protecting the peristomal skin. Skin barriers help protecting the peristomal skin from excrements and secretion, thus keeping the skin physiology intact by absorbing or permeating sweat. The vocabulary for the skin barrier has been standardized by ISO 24214, but there is no standard related to the skin barrier in Korea. We investigated the academic and commercial documents related to the skin barrier, and conducted a survey for appropriate korean vocabulary for standard. We propose Korean standard vocabulary for skin barrier terms defined in ISO 24214:2006.