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/kˈoʊlən/ Listen

noun

Colon n.

(Anat.) That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum.

(Gram.) A point or character, formed thus (:), used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction.

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... of acute inflammation of stomach, duodenum, small intestines, colon, and rectum. Stomach may contain dark grumous fluid, and its mucous coat presents the appearance of crimson velvet. Ulceration is rare, and cases of perforation still less common, the patient dying before it occurs. If life has been preserved for some ...

— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson

... "Hobson's choice" as to the way his tub should sink failed. On July 3d, just after Sampson steamed away to see Shafter, the Maria Teresa was seen poking her nose from the Santiago harbor, followed by the Almirante Oquendo, the Vizcaya, and the Christobal Colon. Under peremptory orders from his Government, Admiral Cervera had begun a mad race to destruction. "It is better," said he, "to die fighting than to blow up the ships in the harbor." These ...

— History of the United States, Volume 5 • E. Benjamin Andrews

... Christobal Colon, as he always signed himself after he entered the service of Spain, was born in Genoa about 1456. Little is certainly known of his early life. His father was a humble wool-carder. The youth possessed but a sorry education, spite of his few months at the ...

— History of the United States, Vol. I (of VI) • E. Benjamin Andrews

... the back view of the cecum, the appendix, a part of the ascending colon, and the lower part of the ileum, with the arterial supply ...

— Appendicitis: The Etiology, Hygenic and Dietetic Treatment • John H. Tilden, M.D.

... ye shall ask in My name.' Our translators have wisely put a colon at the end of that clause, in order that we may not hurry over it too quickly in haste to get to the next one. For there is a substantial blessing and privilege wrapped up in it. Our Lord has just been saying the same thing in the previous verses, but He repeats it here in ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI • Alexander Maclaren

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