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colon
  1. The punctuation mark ":".
  2. (rare) The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
  3. (rhetoric) A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Often their three lines are split into two parts, by a colon or a dash, with an imaginative distance between the two sections.”
      “A healthy colon with adequate mucus production and appropriate bacterial colonization prevents the adherence of pathogenic bacteria.”
      “A fiber-rich diet may also play a part in lowering your risk of colon and rectal cancer.”
colon
  1. (obsolete) A husbandman.
  2. A European colonial settler, especially in a French colony.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Often their three lines are split into two parts, by a colon or a dash, with an imaginative distance between the two sections.”
      “A healthy colon with adequate mucus production and appropriate bacterial colonization prevents the adherence of pathogenic bacteria.”
      “A fiber-rich diet may also play a part in lowering your risk of colon and rectal cancer.”
colonoscope
  1. a flexible fibreoptic endoscope used to examine the colon and obtain tissue samples
  2. Examples:
    1. “Resting comfortably on one side, most people feel only a little discomfort as the colonoscope is carefully inserted into the back passage.”
      “The colonoscope not only allows identification and localization of the disease process, but also allows biopsy or even removal of polyps.”
      “Your doctor will probably look inside your intestines with a sigmoidoscope or a colonoscope.”
colonoscopy
  1. (medicine) The examination of the colon using a colonoscope.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The symptoms became quite distressing and, after a negative colonoscopy, a simple test revealed that I was lactose intolerant.”
      “The surgeon diagnoses the problem by barium enema or a colonoscopy and schedules surgery.”
      “He underwent colonoscopy, which revealed a fungating and hemorrhagic rectosigmoid mass lesion.”
colonocyte
  1. An epithelial cell of the colon
colonoid
  1. An organoid derived from the colon
colonosphere
  1. (pathology) A colonic spheroid
colonic
  1. colonic irrigation
colonoscopes
  1. plural of colonoscope
colonoscopies
  1. plural of colonoscopy
  2. Examples:
    1. “They pay for mammograms yearly, and they pay for colonoscopies, and prostate cancer screening.”
      “Follow-up colonoscopies three years hence determined the presence or absence of polyps.”
      “Explicit medical videos are among the exceptions, allowing cyberpatients and other viewers 18 and over to watch videos of colonoscopies, appendectomies and open-heart surgery.”
colonocytes
  1. plural of colonocyte
colonoids
  1. plural of colonoid
colonics
  1. plural of colonic
  2. Examples:
    1. “These included nature cure, fasting, hydrotherapy, colonics, exercise, diet emphasizing raw foods and vegetarianism.”
      “While juice cleanses and weight loss colonics seem like relatively recent inventions, they have a long history.”
      “By Barbara Brody for Life by DailyBurn Forget colonics and ultra-low-cal juice fasts.”
colons
  1. plural of colon
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This book's a success, it's true, even though it's about commas, apostrophes, colons, dashes and other marks.”
      “Consigned to the unlovely basket are colons and semicolons, and dashes and parentheses.”
      “Programming languages often consist of a seemingly random usage of parentheses, brackets, asterisks, slashes, colons and semi-colons.”
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