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Spastic Colon

Definition: Spastic Colon

Spastic Colon

Noun

1. Recurrent abdominal pain and diarrhea (often alternating with periods of constipation); often associated with emotional stress.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Spastic Colon

Synonyms: irritable bowel syndrome (n), mucous colitis (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Spastic Colon

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Congratulations, you have a spastic colon. (Mr. Deeds; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Spastic Colon

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Some people with IBS, also known as spastic colon, have spasms in the colon that affect bowel movements. (references)

Through the years, IBS has been called by many names--colitis, mucous colitis, spastic colon, spastic bowel, and functional bowel disease. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Spastic Colon

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

spastic colon

406

spastic colon symptom

18

spastic colon treatment

5

diet spastic colon

5

spastic colon remedy

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Spastic Colon

Language Translations for "spastic colon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

colon spastica, colon irritabile (functional colonic disease, spastic colitis). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

prikkelbaar colon. (various references)

   

French

  

colon spasmodique. (various references)

   

German

  

Reizkolon, Colon irritabile spasticum, Colon irritabile. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σπαστικό κόλο, ευερέθιστο κόλο. (various references)

   

Italian

  

colon irritabile (spastic colitis), colite spastica (spastic colitis). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asticspay oloncay

   

Spanish

  

colon irritable, colon inestable. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Spastic Colon

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-l-n-o-o-p-s-s-t"

-1 letter: iconoclasts.

-2 letters: iconoclast.

-3 letters: apostolic, coactions, colonists, locations, occasions, optionals, scotopias, solations, spiccatos.

-4 letters: apostils, capitols, captions, classico, clastics, coaction, coalpits, colonics, colonist, coolants, copilots, inclasps, lactonic, location, occasion, octanols, optional, pactions, piccolos, plastics, platonic, platoons, plosions, pocosins, poloists, potassic, scotopia, scotopic, solation, solitons, spiccato, stolonic, topsails, topsoils.

-5 letters: accosts, actions, alnicos, apostil, atonics, caisson.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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