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the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal 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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| colonic irrigation |
a water enema given to flush out the colon
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| colonization |
the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America"
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| colonoscope |
an elongated fiberoptic endoscope for examining the entire colon from cecum to rectum
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| colony |
a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government a group of animals of the same type living together one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
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