Synonyms for colon
ˈkoʊ ləncolon

Princeton's WordNet

1. colonnoun

   the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted

2. colon, El Salvadoran colonnoun

   the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos

3. colon, Costa Rican colonnoun

   the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos

4. Colon, Aspinwallnoun

   a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal

5. colonnoun

   a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)

Matched Categories

1. • Costa Rican Monetary Unit
   • El Salvadoran Monetary Unit
   • City
   • Large Intestine
   • Port
   • Punctuation Mark

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1. List of paraphrases for "colon":

   columbus, bowel, colonic, colón, settler, surfboard, cologne, intestine

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1. Salvi Jr.:

   He had a bullet go through some or all of his spinal cord, at least one bullet, jacob Blakes family has holes in Jacob Blakes family stomach. Jacob Blakes family had to have nearly Jacob Blakes family entire colon and small intestines removed.

2. Polk County:

   The bottom line is, Joshua Colon tried to cover for the( supervisor), joshua Colon set up the circumstance for the vaccines to have been stolen. Had Joshua Colon simply gone to Joshua Colon boss right then, Joshua Colon'd have been the hero.

3. Alyssa Dweck:

   We see ‘vaginalpHhavoc,’ if you will, break out from [using a toy in the vagina that has just been used for anal play], if you want to use a toy in the anal area, first of all, remember that it has to have some sort of a retrieval device, a string or something along that line. My husband happens to be a colon and rectal surgeon, so I hear of toys getting stuck in the colon because there is nothing to remove it. If you want to switch back and forth between vaginal and anal play thenI would definitely wash the toy in between, and you may want to use a condom on some of the toys as well.

4. Douglas Owens:

   (This study) supports the importance of screening for colon cancer and that there are many ways, many effective ways to do that.

5. Hannah Arrington:

   We got rushed from our local hospital to Arnold Palmer( Hospital for Children), he got the surgery done and they took out almost three feet of his small intestine. He also had to get the holes in his stomach repaired, holes in his large intestine repaired, and a part near his colon repaired as well.