Word Type

Noun

Proper Noun

The word "colon" can be used as noun and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

ascending colon colectomy colic coliform colitis colocolonic colon cleansing colon-point colonectomy colonic colonic irrigation colonitis colonocyte colonogenic colonogram colonography colonoid colonopathy colonoscope colonoscopy colostomy colovaginoplasty descending colon dicolon dolichocolon hemicolon microcolon midcolon pneumocolon redundant colon semicolon sigmoid colon spastic colon transverse colon tricolon

Context

anatomy palaeography rhetoric

Part Of (Holonyms)

large bowel large intestine

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

Costa Rican monetary unit El Salvadoran monetary unit large intestine punctuation punctuation mark

Type Of (IsA)

anatomical vessel costa rican monetary unit el salvadoran monetary unit large intestine punctuation

Parts (Meronyms)

ascending colon descending colon sigmoid colon transverse colon

Part Of

body large intestine panama

Related Terms

Canada) apostrophe bowel brace bracket comma curly brackets dash ellipsis exclamation mark fraction slash full stop guillemet hyphen interpunct interrobang large intestine parentheses (US period question mark quotation marks rectum semicolon slash space square bracket stroke

Related Terms

anus bowel clause colonial digestive distal figure grammatically husbandman ileum large intestine logically mark proximal punctuation rectum rhetorical segment semicolon settler triangular colon

Synonym Network

colon point large bowel

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.