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Definition: Colorectal |
ColorectalAdjective1. Relating to or affecting the colon and the rectum; "most colorectal cancers arise from adenomatous polyps". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Having to do with the colon or the rectum. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Colorectal |
| English words defined with "colorectal": faecal occult test, fecal occult test ♦ stool test. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "colorectal": beta-glucans ♦ Colorectal Cancer, Colorectal Neoplasms ♦ Gardner's Syndrome, Genes, APC, Genes, DCC, Genes, MCC ♦ Occult Bleeding ♦ Protein p53 ♦ stage I colorectal cancer, stage II colorectal cancer, stage III colorectal cancer. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Colorectal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (colorectal), French (colorectal), Portuguese (colorectal). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Line drawing showing the lining of the GI tract: colorectal (muscularis). The walls of the digestive tract have four layers of tissue: mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa and serosa. The inner-most layer is the mucosa, a membrane that forms a continuous lining of the GI tract from the mouth to the anus. In the large bowel, this tissue contains cells that produce mucus to lubricate and protect the smooth inner surface of the bowel wall. Connective tissue and muscle separate the muscosa from the second layer, the submucosa, which contains blood vessels, lymph vessels, nerves and mucus-producing glands. Next to the submucosa is the muscularis externa, consisting of two layers of muscle fibers-one that runs lengthwise and one that encircles the bowel. The fourth layer, the serosa, is a thin membrane that produces fluid to lubricate the outer surface of the bowel so that it can slide against adjacent organs. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Colorectal cancer is a major public health problem in the United States. (references) | |
Roughly half of these individuals will die from recurrent colorectal cancer. (references) | ||
Recently, mortality from colorectal cancer has decreased overall, more for rectal than for colon tumors. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Colorectal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.39% of the time. "Colorectal" is used about 328 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.39% | 326 | 15,930 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.61% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 328 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "colorectal": Colorectal Cancer ♦ Colorectal Neoplasms ♦ Colorectal Surgery ♦ Colorectal Transit Study ♦ stage I colorectal cancer ♦ stage II colorectal cancer ♦ stage III colorectal cancer ♦ stage IV colorectal cancer. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "colorectal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | colorectal, kolo-rektal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | colorectaal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | koolon-peräsuoli-, kolorektaalinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | colorectal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | kolorektal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ορθοκολικός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | colo-rettale, colorettale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olorectalcay colorectal. (various references) colorrectal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Colorectal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coleractal, colerectal, coloretal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-l-l-o-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: collector, collocate, corollate. | |
-2 letters: acrolect, collaret, collator, colocate. | |
-3 letters: coactor, collate, collect, coracle, corolla, locater, locator, ocellar, reallot. | |
-4 letters: caller, callet, carcel, cartel, cellar, claret, coaler, coater, collar, collet, colter, cooler, cooter, lector, locale, locate, looter, loreal, ocelot, oracle, recall, recoal, rectal, retool, taller, toller, tooler. | |
-5 letters: actor, alert, allot, alter, artel, atoll, caret, carle. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-l-l-o-o-r-t" | |
+5 letters: bacteriological, coulometrically, econometrically. | |
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