"descending colon" meaning in English

See descending colon in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: descending colons [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} descending colon (plural descending colons)
  1. (anatomy) A part of the colon adjacent to the sigmoid colon. Wikipedia link: descending colon Categories (topical): Anatomy Translations (part of colon): còlon descendent [masculine] (Catalan), 降结肠 (jiangjiechang) (Chinese Mandarin), 降結腸 (Chinese Mandarin), 降结肠 (jiàngjiécháng) (Chinese Mandarin), sestupný tračník [masculine] (Czech), côlon descendant [masculine] (French), leszálló vastagbél (Hungarian), kolona dakêşayî [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), zstępnica [feminine] (Polish)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for descending colon meaning in English (2.1kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "descending colons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "descending colon (plural descending colons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Anatomy",
          "orig": "en:Anatomy",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A part of the colon adjacent to the sigmoid colon."
      ],
      "id": "en-descending_colon-en-noun-BTPw4XPG",
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "colon",
          "colon"
        ],
        [
          "sigmoid colon",
          "sigmoid colon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) A part of the colon adjacent to the sigmoid colon."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "part of colon",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "còlon descendent"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jiangjiechang",
          "sense": "part of colon",
          "word": "降结肠"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "part of colon",
          "word": "降結腸"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jiàngjiécháng",
          "sense": "part of colon",
          "word": "降结肠"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "part of colon",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "sestupný tračník"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "part of colon",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "côlon descendant"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "part of colon",
          "word": "leszálló vastagbél"
        },
        {
          "code": "kmr",
          "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
          "sense": "part of colon",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "kolona dakêşayî"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "part of colon",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "zstępnica"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "descending colon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "descending colon"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "descending colons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "descending colon (plural descending colons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "en:Anatomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A part of the colon adjacent to the sigmoid colon."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "colon",
          "colon"
        ],
        [
          "sigmoid colon",
          "sigmoid colon"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) A part of the colon adjacent to the sigmoid colon."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "descending colon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "part of colon",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "còlon descendent"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiangjiechang",
      "sense": "part of colon",
      "word": "降结肠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "part of colon",
      "word": "降結腸"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jiàngjiécháng",
      "sense": "part of colon",
      "word": "降结肠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "part of colon",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sestupný tračník"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "part of colon",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "côlon descendant"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "part of colon",
      "word": "leszálló vastagbél"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "part of colon",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kolona dakêşayî"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "part of colon",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zstępnica"
    }
  ],
  "word": "descending colon"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.