Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders affecting the colon, rectum, and anus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That medical specialty which deals with diseases of the anus and rectum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The branch of medicine dealing with the
colon ,rectum andanus patology and colorectal surgery - noun surgery
Colorectal surgery as a specialty inside proctology.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the colon or rectum or anus
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What amazes me most is that it brought them to my blog - I'm pretty sure this is the first time the word "proctology" has appeared on it...
The End Is Rear James F. McGrath 2009
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What amazes me most is that it brought them to my blog - I'm pretty sure this is the first time the word "proctology" has appeared on it...
The End Is Rear James F. McGrath 2009
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Liberty Lover, certainly proctology would be a dream job for a repressed repiggie as well, but just think of the possibilities for “legally” handling all that man-meat.
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My money is down on “head of a chain of cut-rate proctology clinics” …
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Urology would still trump proctology, as far as repiggie closet cases are concerned.
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Have you ever gone through the financial proctology exam of getting a home loan?
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Yeah, my heads in the sand alright … is your doctorate in proctology?
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I say this because I suspect that proctology may become a growth industry here before too long, what with all those stuck craniums out there.
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This bill provides a proctology exam for every member of the working class!!!!
House panel passes health care bill after marathon session 2009
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Close appears briefly, midway through a closing montage of footage from earlier Honors videos he made a lot of them, it seems that features, among other things, young women showering, chubby men in bikini tops, and sight gags involving lubricating jelly and proctology exams.
Glenn Close not at all honored to make unwitting cameo in Capt. Honors' video The Reliable Source 2011
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