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How to pronounce colon in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms el salvadoran colon
Type of el salvadoran monetary unit
Type Words
Synonyms costa rican colon
Type of costa rican monetary unit
Type Words
Synonyms aspinwall
Type Words
Type of punctuation mark, punctuation
Type Words
Type of large intestine
Has types ascending colon, descending colon, megacolon, sigmoid colon, sigmoid flexure, transverse colon
Derivation colonic

Examples of colon

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An 8-by-20-foot inflatable colon will be at the site for people to walk through.
From the dispatch.com
This may also be beneficial for those diagnosed with colon cancer later in life.
From the sciencedaily.com
With every rinse and squeeze of my colon, I was talked through what I could see.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
Colon, in particular, is the typical ornery right tackle, and vastly underrated.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Cunerty has won battles with colon cancer, heart disease, melanoma and diabetes.
From the ocregister.com
Varnadore, 50, suffers from colon cancer and underwent 52 weeks of chemotherapy.
From the time.com
A similar response was confirmed in human lung, colon and prostate cancer cells.
From the sciencedaily.com
This probably plays a role in the increased risk of colon cancer, says Feinberg.
From the sciencedaily.com
Sawaya lists lung, breast, melanoma, kidney and colon cancer as the most common.
From the sciencedaily.com
More examples
  • The part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted
  • The basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos
  • A port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal
  • A punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)
  • (colonic) of or relating to the colon
  • The colon is the last part of the digestive system in most vertebrates; it extracts water and salt from solid wastes before they are eliminated from the body, and is the site in which flora-aided (largely bacteria) fermentation of unabsorbed material occurs. ...
  • Colorectal cancer, also called colon cancer or large bowel cancer, includes cancerous growths in the colon, rectum and appendix. ...
  • The colu00F3n (u20A1) refers to two Central American currencies:
  • Colu00F3n is one of the 18 departments into which Honduras is divided. It was created in 1881. The departmental capital is Trujillo, and the other main city is Tocoa. Trujillo was the site of the first Catholic Mass in the American mainland, held when Christopher Columbus reached the Honduran shore in 1502.