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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rectal
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 radiotherapy for palliation of advanced rectal cancer.
▪ Discussion Laser treatment is now established in many units for palliation of symptoms in patients with inoperable rectal cancer.
distension
▪ The validity of rectal distension measurements, usually determined with pressure-volume relations, is disputed.
▪ Five minute rest periods separated each rectal distension.
▪ After each rectal distension, the subjects described their sensation.
examination
▪ Digital rectal examination was performed before insertion of the tube to ensure that the rectum was empty.
▪ Her abdomen was generally tender and rectal examination showed watery stool stained with mucus and a small amount of blood.
mucosa
▪ We have previously characterised the rectal mucosa associated microflora of patients with ulcerative colitis.
▪ This viewpoint is also corroborated by the brisk response of rectal mucosa to local gluten infusion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Five minute rest periods separated each rectal distension.
▪ If this is below the tipping point for rectal gonorrhea, the disease will continue to disappear slowly.
▪ Patient 202 - presented aged 41 years with a rectal adenocarcinoma associated with over 100 adenomatous polyps.
▪ Patients evacuated their bowels before rectal dialysis.
▪ Some theorized that repeated rectal exposure to the semen of different partners might be leading to an immune breakdown.
▪ The treatment of choice for rectal and rectosigmoid cancer is complete surgical resection.
▪ The validity of rectal distension measurements, usually determined with pressure-volume relations, is disputed.
▪ These findings are possibly explained by poor rectal absorption of N-acetyl-5ASA.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rectal

Rectal \Rec"tal\ (r?k"tal), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the rectum; in the region of the rectum.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rectal

1822, from stem of rectum + -al (1). Related: Rectally.

Wiktionary
rectal

a. Of -, via - or related to the rectum.

WordNet
rectal

adj. of or involving the rectum; "rectal cancer"

Wikipedia

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.