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Definition: Spastic Colon |
Spastic ColonNoun1. 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 ColonSynonyms: irritable bowel syndrome (n), mucous colitis (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| 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 |
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. | |
| 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 colon irritable, colon inestable. (various references) | ||||||||||
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. | |
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| 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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