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colonic
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of, relating to, affecting or within the colon. n. colonic irrigation
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. irrigation of the colon for cleansing purposes by injecting large amounts of fluid high into the colon [syn: colonic irrigation , high colonic ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
colonic \colonic\ adj. of or pertaining to the colon.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES colonic irrigation COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN biopsy ▪ The patients were given supplementation for one month and colonic biopsy specimens were taken before and at the end of the trial. ▪ Figure 2 illustrates ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1906, from colon (n.2) + adjectival ending -ic .
Usage examples of colonic.
So what we gotta do is give the planet a nice organic mudpack, a free trip to the Betty Ford, and a good stiff high colonic?
Could that wink, though, have been one purely of medical commiseration between fellow candidates for boil lancing or colonic irrigation?
They were in the drawing room at Number Ten, eating little hot snacks and talking about flagellation and colonic irrigation.
But for some unknown reason, the course of the river widens below the cataract -- it looks just like the advertisements you see for colonic irrigation.
It took vicious, darwinian computation to make a high colonic sound like an afternoon at a spa.
In my opinion, Trout, far from giving yet another high colonic to our aborigines, is raising the question, perhaps too subtly, of whether great discoveries, such as the existence of another hemisphere, or of accessible atomic energy, really make people any happier than they were before.
If this is Memory Lane, Eddie thinks, I'd trade it for one great big brain enema: a mental high colonic.
It's been suggested by colleagues even more fanciful than I that Western Man needs an occasional high colonic, a purging, and this occurs at the end of centuries so that he can face the new century clean and full of optimism.
My grandmother often listened in when things were slow around the house, covering the mouthpiece with a hand and relaying to the rest of the room vivid accounts of colonic irrigations, prolapsed wombs, husbands who ran off to Burlington with the barmaid from Vern's Uptown Tavern and Supper Club, and other crises of small-town life.
What gross colonic events, may I ask, are taking place in the area of my sigmoid flexure, Softly thought, stressing to himself the importance of such inquiries, Mainwarì.