colorectal

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   relating to or affecting the colon and the rectum

   “most colorectal cancers arise from adenomatous polyps”

Questions about colorectal

What does colorectal mean?

colorectal means "relating to or affecting the colon and the rectum".

How many syllables are in colorectal?

colorectal has 4 syllables: co-lo-rec-tal. The stress falls on "rec". In IPA it is /ˌkoʊloʊˈɹɛktəl/.

Is colorectal a common word?

colorectal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with colorectal?

1 word rhymes with colorectal. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.