colon

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 External links 1.2.2 Synonyms 1.2.3 Derived terms 1.2.4 See also 1.2.5 Translations 1.3 Anagrams 2 Italian 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Derived terms 3 Spanish 3.1 Noun

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[edit] Noun

colon (plural colons or (obsolete) cola)

1. (grammar) The punctuation mark ":" introducing a quotation or a series of items, or separating clauses.
2. (anatomy) The final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the anus
3. A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.

[edit] External links

• http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/C/colon.htm Part of a glossary of classical rhetorical terms.

[edit] Synonyms

• (final segment of digestive system): large bowel, large intestine

[edit] Derived terms

• colectomy
• colic
• colitis
• colonic
• colonitis
• colostomy
• colonic irrigation

[edit] See also

• bowel
• rectum
• Wikipedia article on colons (in punctuation)
• Wikipedia article on the colon (in anatomy)

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) brackets ( ( ) ) ( [ ] ) ( { } ) ( 〈 〉 ) colon ( : )

comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … )

exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop/period ( . ) hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )

interrobang ( ‽ ) question mark ( ? ) quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )

semicolon ( ; ) slash/solidus ( / ) ( ⁄ ) space (   ) interpunct ( · )

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• Alphagram: clnoo
• lonco

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[edit] Italian

Wikipedia ^it

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colon m. inv.

1. (anatomy) colon

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• colectomia
• colite
• colon ascendente
• colon discendente
• colon sigmoideo
• colon trasverso
• colonscopia
• colostomia
• sindrome del colon irritabile

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Noun

colon m. (plural colones)

1. (anatomy, grammar, rhetoric) colon