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Colon   /kˈoʊlən/   Listen
Colon

noun
(pl. colons, cola)
1.
The part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted.
2.
The basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos.  Synonym: El Salvadoran colon.
3.
The basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos.  Synonym: Costa Rican colon.
4.
A port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal.  Synonym: Aspinwall.
5.
A punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter).



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... WORM.—(Oxyuris Vermicularis.)—This common worm occupies the rectum and colon. They produce great irritation and itching, particularly at night, symptoms which become intensely aggravated by the nightly migration (traveling) of the parasite. They sometimes in their travels enter the vagina. Occasionally abscesses are formed around the bowel (rectum) containing numbers ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... Malecon, up and down the Prado lined with laurels and distinguished for fine houses and clubs. We visited the parks, the Exchange, the old churches, the navy yard, La Fueza, built by De Soto, the old markets of Colon and Tacon, the Palace; and we stood in the Cathedral before the medallion which marked the burial place of Columbus when his remains were removed here from Santa Domingo in 1796. We dined about the cafes and hotels, and attended the theater, and walked, when Dorothy felt equal to it, through the ...
— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters

... are many pathies. These have a tendency to take one part of the human being, or one procedure of treatment, and to play this up to the elimination of all the rest. Some do everything with the mind. Others pay no attention to the mind. Bathing, massage, manipulating the spine, washing out the colon, baths in mud, sunshine or water, suggestion and many other things are separately given credit for being cure-alls. Many of these are excellent as a part of regenerative treatment, but they are not sufficient of themselves to give ...
— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker

... as good as it promises; but I'm out of this job. The only favour you can do me is to help me shift down this coast—as far as Colon, for instance. And I owe it to Renton, of course, to mail this letter. With your knowledge of the boats and trains, you can get to New York along with it or even ahead ...
— Foe-Farrell • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... il en avoit moins que le colon, car son diametre n'etoit que de quatorze pouces dans la partie la plus large; il avoit trois pieds et demi de longueur: l'orifice superieur etoit a-peu-pres aussi eloigne du pylore que du fond du grand cul-de-sac qui se terminoit ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent


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