colorectal
adjEtymology From colo- + rectal.
- She has always struggled with her gastrointestinal health, and when she started to have symptoms similar to those of colorectal cancer, she called her primary care physician, who referred her to a gastroenterologist, who ordered a colonoscopy. She did not have cancer.2023 May 26, Jacqueline Howard and Kyla Russell, “As colorectal cancer rises among younger adults, some seek colonoscopies earlier”, in CNN:
- Derived terms
- anticolorectal, colorectal cancer, colorectally, noncolorectal, pericolorectal