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. Maya Harris:

   She took our hands and she said she'd been diagnosed with colon cancer, that was one of the worst days of my life, truly. But, you know, it is also, as, you know, and your family knows...

2. Joel Gabre:

   They have young families and so much of their life ahead of them. That’s why I encourage my patients who are age 45 years and older to get screened, i also encourage people to let their doctor know if they have a family history of colon cancer. There is genetic testing we can do to identify some at-risk patients early before they develop cancer.

3. Otis Brawley:

   It's not whether you have pancreatic cancer, or colon cancer or lung cancer that's going to be important to the treating clinician, what's going to be important to the treating clinician is what's wrong with your tumor at a molecular level.

4. Jackie Walorski:

   My dad was a veteran. He died of colon cancer, this is so personal to me.

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.