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pericolorectal

pericolorectal adjective: surrounding the colon and rectum.

Adjective

pericolorectal (not comparable)

  1. Surrounding the colon and rectum
    • The tumor invaded through the muscularis propria into pericolorectal fat tissues.2015 December 18, “Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase Rearrangement in Digestive Tract Cancer: Implication for Targeted Therapy in Chinese Population”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of pericolorectal

From peri- + colorectal.

Questions about pericolorectal

What does pericolorectal mean?
Pericolorectal means surrounding the colon and rectum.
What part of speech is pericolorectal?
Pericolorectal is an adjective.

Words near pericolorectal in the dictionary

  1. pericoitally
  2. pericolic
  3. pericolitis
  4. pericollateral
  5. pericolonic
  6. pericolorectal
  7. pericolpate
  8. pericolporate
  9. pericombobulation
  10. pericombobulations
  11. pericommissural

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