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colonorectal

colonorectal is the alternative form of colorectal.

Meaning of colorectal

Adjective

colorectal (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the colorectum.
    • She has always struggled with her gastrointestinal health, and when she started to have symptoms similar to those of colorectal cancer, she called her primary care physician, who referred her to a gastroenterologist, who ordered a colonoscopy. She did not have cancer.2023 May 26, Jacqueline Howard and Kyla Russell, “As colorectal cancer rises among younger adults, some seek colonoscopies earlier”, in CNN

Origin of colonorectal

From colono- + rectal.

Questions about colonorectal

What is colonorectal the alternative form of?
Colonorectal is the alternative form of colorectal.

Words near colonorectal in the dictionary

  1. colonometrograms
  2. colonometry
  3. colonopathies
  4. colonopathy
  5. colonopexy
  6. colonorectal
  7. colonoscope
  8. colonoscopes
  9. colonoscopic
  10. colonoscopically
  11. colonoscopies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colonorectal (page history and authors); colorectal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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