Colon
noun
A punctuation mark (:) used to introduce a list, a quotation, or a speech in a play.
Here are the main points: first, quality; second, price; and third, convenience.
Often appears as...
- colon punctuation
- use a colon
noun
The main large intestine in the human body that absorbs water from indigestible food waste.
The doctor said his colon was inflamed.
Often appears as...
- colon cancer
- inflamed colon
noun
The two vertical points used in a digital clock or computer interface to separate hours, minutes and seconds.
The time on my computer is displayed as 12:34:56. The colons separate the hours, minutes, and seconds.
Often appears as...
- 12:00 am
- pm :00
noun
A unit of currency in Costa Rica equal to one hundred céntimos.
How many colons do you have?
Often appears as...
- costa rica colon
- exchange rate colon
noun
A punctuation mark (:) used to introduce a list, a quotation, or a speech in a play.
Here are the main points: first, quality; second, price; and third, convenience.
Often appears as...
- colon punctuation
- use a colon
noun
The main large intestine in the human body that absorbs water from indigestible food waste.
The doctor said his colon was inflamed.
Often appears as...
- colon cancer
- inflamed colon
noun
The two vertical points used in a digital clock or computer interface to separate hours, minutes and seconds.
The time on my computer is displayed as 12:34:56. The colons separate the hours, minutes, and seconds.
Often appears as...
- 12:00 am
- pm :00
noun
A unit of currency in Costa Rica equal to one hundred céntimos.
How many colons do you have?
Often appears as...
- costa rica colon
- exchange rate colon
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3List Introduction
A colon introduces items in a series or list after a complete sentence.
You will need: a notebook, a pen, and your laptop.
Pro Tip 2/3Clarification
Use a colon to explain or clarify the preceding statement.
I have one philosophy in life: live and let live.
Pro Tip 3/3Speech Attribution
In script writing, a colon separates a character's name from their dialogue.
JANE: I can't believe we're finally here!
Pro Tip 1/3List Introduction
A colon introduces items in a series or list after a complete sentence.
You will need: a notebook, a pen, and your laptop.
Pro Tip 2/3Clarification
Use a colon to explain or clarify the preceding statement.
I have one philosophy in life: live and let live.
Pro Tip 3/3Speech Attribution
In script writing, a colon separates a character's name from their dialogue.
JANE: I can't believe we're finally here!
Pro Tip 1/3List Introduction
A colon introduces items in a series or list after a complete sentence.
You will need: a notebook, a pen, and your laptop.
Pro Tip 2/3Clarification
Use a colon to explain or clarify the preceding statement.
I have one philosophy in life: live and let live.
Pro Tip 3/3Speech Attribution
In script writing, a colon separates a character's name from their dialogue.
JANE: I can't believe we're finally here!
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Daniel Kraft: Medicine's...
Compare those two pictures. As a radiologist, you can basically fly through your patient's colon, and augmenting that with artificial intelligence, potentially identify a lesion that we might have missed, but using AI on top of radiology, we can find lesions that were missed before. Maybe this will encourage people to get colonoscopies that wouldn't have otherwise.
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Dean Ornish: Healing...
more than that just gives you extra fat you don't need. It also helps reduce the risk of the most common cancers, like breast, prostate and colon. The problem with the Atkins diet is, everyone knows people who've lost weight on it, but you can lose weight on amphetamines and fen-phen; there are lots of ways of losing weight that aren't good for you.
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Rob Knight: How our...
before they drained them out for embalming. So I mentioned that microbes have all these important functions, and they've also now, just over the past few years, been connected to a whole range of different diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, heart disease, colon cancer, and even obesity.
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Why you shouldn't worry...
where fats, proteins, carbohydrates and micronutrients are further broken down, with help from the pancreas, gallbladder, liver and the microbiome, so they can be absorbed across the small intestine and sent to the liver for processing. What's left moves to the large intestine or the colon,
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Pelvic Target PIPE National...
has internal organs we have a bladder colon and we have all the pelvic bones here so when you actually impact us it should be fairly realistic as to what you would actually feel in the human body if you were to impact with this pelvic strike in the real world the
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This tiny particle could...
where it works better than existing methods for the detection of lung, colon and ovarian cancer. And I hope that what this means is that one day we can detect tumors in patients sooner than 10 years after they've started growing, in all walks of life,
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Mrs. Turnmire’s Ordeal PIPE...
were very deep she had a fragment in her lung and a hole in her colon and there was air escaping from two of her main arteries if it had been a little bit to the left more here here and had been right in her heart you're lucky woman
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The unexpected tool to...
just HTTP colon slash slash you're using cryptography with the word without even thinking about it to keep messages secret and people have been hiding messages and try to talk to people without others eavesdropping forever
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Who's at risk for colon...
At that point, they can transform into colon cancer, one of the most prevalent and preventable forms of cancer in the world. That's a slow though growth times vary, it often takes around ten years for a small polyp
Video examples
How the food you eat...
as well as a decrease of butyrate. That's a short chain fatty acid thought to lower risk of colon cancer. Meanwhile, the group that switched to a high-fiber, low-fat diet had the opposite result.
Video examples
Daniel Kraft: Medicine's...
Compare those two pictures. As a radiologist, you can basically fly through your patient's colon, and augmenting that with artificial intelligence, potentially identify a lesion that we might have missed, but using AI on top of radiology, we can find lesions that were missed before. Maybe this will encourage people to get colonoscopies that wouldn't have otherwise.
Video examples
Dean Ornish: Healing...
more than that just gives you extra fat you don't need. It also helps reduce the risk of the most common cancers, like breast, prostate and colon. The problem with the Atkins diet is, everyone knows people who've lost weight on it, but you can lose weight on amphetamines and fen-phen; there are lots of ways of losing weight that aren't good for you.
Video examples
Rob Knight: How our...
before they drained them out for embalming. So I mentioned that microbes have all these important functions, and they've also now, just over the past few years, been connected to a whole range of different diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, heart disease, colon cancer, and even obesity.
Video examples
Why you shouldn't worry...
where fats, proteins, carbohydrates and micronutrients are further broken down, with help from the pancreas, gallbladder, liver and the microbiome, so they can be absorbed across the small intestine and sent to the liver for processing. What's left moves to the large intestine or the colon,
Video examples
Pelvic Target PIPE National...
has internal organs we have a bladder colon and we have all the pelvic bones here so when you actually impact us it should be fairly realistic as to what you would actually feel in the human body if you were to impact with this pelvic strike in the real world the
Video examples
This tiny particle could...
where it works better than existing methods for the detection of lung, colon and ovarian cancer. And I hope that what this means is that one day we can detect tumors in patients sooner than 10 years after they've started growing, in all walks of life,
Video examples
Mrs. Turnmire’s Ordeal PIPE...
were very deep she had a fragment in her lung and a hole in her colon and there was air escaping from two of her main arteries if it had been a little bit to the left more here here and had been right in her heart you're lucky woman
Video examples
The unexpected tool to...
just HTTP colon slash slash you're using cryptography with the word without even thinking about it to keep messages secret and people have been hiding messages and try to talk to people without others eavesdropping forever
Video examples
Who's at risk for colon...
At that point, they can transform into colon cancer, one of the most prevalent and preventable forms of cancer in the world. That's a slow though growth times vary, it often takes around ten years for a small polyp
Video examples
How the food you eat...
as well as a decrease of butyrate. That's a short chain fatty acid thought to lower risk of colon cancer. Meanwhile, the group that switched to a high-fiber, low-fat diet had the opposite result.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Craig Venter
American Scientist
Preventative medicine has to be the direction we go in. For example, if colon cancer is detected early - because a person knew he had a genetic risk and was having frequent exams - the surgery is relatively inexpensive and average survival is far greater than 10 years.
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Chris Pronger
Canadian Hockey Player
When my wife was six years old, her father was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer and was given a 10% chance to live. He wanted to travel the world with his family while he could, so on these trips she got to see her father be excited to be with the family.
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Atul Gawande
American Scientist
The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal.
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Eric Davis
American Athlete
I'd never heard of colon cancer. Baseball wasn't even important to me. I have a wife and two girls. That's what was important. The doctors told me and all I could say was, 'When are we going to get this thing out?
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Vincent Gallo
American Actor
I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.
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Joel Fuhrman
American Scientist
We can reduce these cancer rates - breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer - by 90 percent or more by people adopting what I call a nutritrarian diet.
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Abby Lee Miller
American Dancer
I always thought I would die of cancer because my mom and my dad both died of cancer. My dad died of osteocancer, and my mom died of colon cancer.
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Iyanla Vanzant
American Author
In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.
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Woody Harrelson
American Actor
The state of the health of the individual is equivalent to the state to the health of the colon.
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Hill Harper
American Actor
Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks.
Quote examples
Craig Venter
American Scientist
Preventative medicine has to be the direction we go in. For example, if colon cancer is detected early - because a person knew he had a genetic risk and was having frequent exams - the surgery is relatively inexpensive and average survival is far greater than 10 years.
Quote examples
Chris Pronger
Canadian Hockey Player
When my wife was six years old, her father was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer and was given a 10% chance to live. He wanted to travel the world with his family while he could, so on these trips she got to see her father be excited to be with the family.
Quote examples
Atul Gawande
American Scientist
The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal.
Quote examples
Eric Davis
American Athlete
I'd never heard of colon cancer. Baseball wasn't even important to me. I have a wife and two girls. That's what was important. The doctors told me and all I could say was, 'When are we going to get this thing out?
Quote examples
Vincent Gallo
American Actor
I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.
Quote examples
Joel Fuhrman
American Scientist
We can reduce these cancer rates - breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer - by 90 percent or more by people adopting what I call a nutritrarian diet.
Quote examples
Abby Lee Miller
American Dancer
I always thought I would die of cancer because my mom and my dad both died of cancer. My dad died of osteocancer, and my mom died of colon cancer.
Quote examples
Iyanla Vanzant
American Author
In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.
Quote examples
Woody Harrelson
American Actor
The state of the health of the individual is equivalent to the state to the health of the colon.
Quote examples
Hill Harper
American Actor
Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks.
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