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COLON
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Irregular inflected forms: cola , colones
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("colon" is a kind of...):
large intestine (beginning with the cecum and ending with the rectum; includes the cecum and the colon and the rectum; extracts moisture from food residues which are later excreted as feces)
Meronyms (parts of "colon"):
sigmoid vein; vena sigmoideus (tributaries of the inferior mesenteric vein; drains the sigmoid colon)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colon"):
megacolon (an abnormal enlargement of the colon; can be congenital (as in Hirschsprung's disease) or acquired (as when children refuse to defecate))
transverse colon (the part of the large intestine that extends across the abdominal cavity and joins the ascending to the descending colon)
ascending colon (the part of the large intestine that ascends from the cecum to the transverse colon)
descending colon (the part of the large intestine that descends from the transverse colon to the sigmoid colon)
sigmoid colon; sigmoid flexure (the s-shaped curve between the descending colon and the rectum)
Derivation:
colonic (of or relating to the colon)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("colon" is a kind of...):
punctuation; punctuation mark (the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
Holonyms ("Colon" is a part of...):
Panama; Republic of Panama (a republic on the Isthmus of Panama; achieved independence from Colombia in 1903)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("colon" is a kind of...):
Costa Rican monetary unit (monetary unit in Costa Rica)
Meronyms (parts of "colon"):
centimo (a fractional monetary unit of Venezuela and Costa Rica and Equatorial Guinea and Paraguay and Spain)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos
Synonyms:
colon; El Salvadoran colon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("colon" is a kind of...):
El Salvadoran monetary unit (monetary unit in El Salvador)
Meronyms (parts of "colon"):
centavo (a fractional monetary unit of several countries: El Salvador and Sao Tome and Principe and Brazil and Argentina and Bolivia and Colombia and Cuba and the Dominican Republic and Ecuador and El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico and Nicaragua and Peru and the Philippines and Portugal)
Context examples:
This gene plays a role in DNA mismatch repair and is associated with hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer.
(MLH3 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
The AXL gene is a chronic myelogenous leukemia-associated oncogene and is also associated with colon cancer and melanoma.
(AXL wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
DTD is over-expressed in many tumors relative to normal tissue, including lung, colon, breast and liver tumors.
(Aziridinylbenzoquinone RH1, NCI Thesaurus)
This may be from a primary colon or rectal cancer, or from a cancer at a distant site.
(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Colon, NCI Thesaurus)
Such malignant neoplasms may be carcinomas (e.g. breast, colon), lymphomas, melanomas, or sarcomas.
(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Liver, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene is involved in the regulation of gene expression and is proposed to act as an oncogene in a broad variety of leukemias as well as colon, pancreatic and prostate carcinomas.
(MIR106A Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
It was studied for use in colon cancer.
(Meturedepa, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples include metastatic carcinomas from the colon, breast, and lung.
(Metastatic Carcinoma to the Liver, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene is involved in the regulation of gene expression and plays a role in the development of hepatocellular, lung, colon, breast and prostate carcinomas.
(MIR126 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
A substance that is used in cancer research to cause colon tumors in laboratory animals.
(Azoxymethane, NCI Dictionary)
