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Definition: Proctology |
ProctologyNoun1. The branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the colon or rectum or anus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "proctology" was first used: 1899. (references) |
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Books | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
proctology | 79 |
exam proctology | 9 |
joke proctology | 2 |
photo proctology | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "proctology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Proktologie. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | proktológia. (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 肛門科 (proctology clinic), 肛門学 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "うも"がく, "うも"か (proctology clinic). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | octologypray проктология. (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | proktos. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Proctology" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: protology, Trichology. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-l-o-o-o-p-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: protocol, tocology, topology. | |
-3 letters: orology, otology, polycot. | |
-4 letters: coplot, crypto, oology, poorly, portly, prolog, protyl. | |
-5 letters: cloot, colog, color, cooly, coopt, crypt, glory, goopy, loopy, octyl, ology, orlop, porgy, rooty, troop. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-l-o-o-o-p-r-t-y" | |
+3 letters: cryptozoology. | |
+4 letters: tropologically. | |
+5 letters: cryptozoologies, cryptozoologist. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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