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rectal
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Word definitions for rectal in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN cancer ▪ Results from the first major series of patients treated by radiotherapy alone for rectal cancer were published in 1956. ▪ Here we present the results of a prospective pilot study of combination laser and ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1822, from stem of rectum + -al (1). Related: Rectally .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rectal \Rec"tal\ (r?k"tal), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the rectum; in the region of the rectum.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of -, via - or related to the rectum.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or involving the rectum; "rectal cancer"
Usage examples of rectal.
A red silk curtain scented with rose oil, musk, sperm, rectal mucus, ozone and raw meat goes up on a hospital ward of boys covered with phosphorescent red blotches that glow and steam the fever smell off them, shuddering, squirming, shivering, eyes burning, legs up, teeth bare, whispering the ancient evil fever words.
It is hoped to construct a rectal modulus of Reagan and the auto-disaster of maximized audience arousal.
Fluid gushed from the junction with her rectal assailant and spread under the hips of the two oralists.
He raised her hips slightly and spread the rectal area with the fingers of both hands.
When he recovered his senses, she had risen off him, had freed his flaccid organ and now sat between his legs, connected only via her rectal tongue, leaning forward with elbows supported above him on widespread knees.
The rectal tongue is usually the longest, normally kept coiled where a human keeps his intestines.
Rectal temperatures taken on monkeys being sacrificed were not elevated.
Ty informs me that the penile and rectal tongues almost always both enter the woman, not necessarily by different avenues.
And so the nauseous balloon sank, fold on midnight fold, upon its own boneless self, fissuring volcanic sulphurs, immense rectal airs, outgassed whistles and whimpers of self-pitying despair.
Through the rectal wall I gripped the uterine cervix, then I worked along the right horn.
There was also a large TV screen for basic operative parameters: electrocardiogram, peripheral arterial pressure, respirations, cardiac output, central venous pressure, rectal temperature.
His specialties were the treatment of rectal and venereal diseases, but no search of his published writings or other literature unearthed any mention of his treating so-called fistulas of the penis.
His specialties were the treatment of rectal and venereal diseases, but no search of his published writings or other literature unearthed any mention of his treating so-called fistulas of the penis.
Morgot took two swabs from each of them, one vaginal, one rectal, dropping them into the vial that Stavia held ready before she sealed the woman on the forehead with indelible ink.
The astronaut was helped into his full pressure suit, with his biosensors attached and his rectal thermometer inserted, and then placed into the gondola, in a contoured seat molded for his body, whereupon all the wires, hoses, and microphones he would have in actual flight were hooked up, and the gondola was depressurized to five pounds per square inch, as it would be in space flight.