Possessives

• animal: A catheter placed into the colon and a tube placed in the animals ' rectum.

Converse of object

• affect: When the disease affects only the rectum - the final portion of the bowel, it is known as proctitis.

• prolapse: In 1978 I suffered a prolapsed rectum - were my muscles that weak?

• examine: This involves examining the rectum for colon cancer by using a camera fitted on a flexible tube.

• remove: Cancer of the rectum may involve removing the whole rectum and anus.

• find: Marcus and Pierre find the rectum, where Marcus quizzes the inhabitants about the whereabouts of La Tenia.

• include: These include the rectum, which is directly behind the prostate gland, and the bladder, lying on top of the gland.

Adjective modifier

• low: They occur when the haemorrhoidal veins around the anus and lower rectum become swollen in a similar fashion to varicose veins in the legs.

• own: As the modern music scene begins to disappear up its own rectum, more and more people are going back to the source material.

Modifies a noun

• wall: He/she will be able to to feel your prostate through the rectum wall and detect any problems or changes from the previous examination.

• anus: However an end ileostomy can sometimes be given and the rectum and/or anus left in place.

• cancer: Japan has one of the lowest incidences of colon and rectum cancer in the world.

• and/or: However an end ileostomy can sometimes be given and the rectum and/or anus left in place.

Noun used with modifier

• terminal: Prof. David Smith with Dr. Elaine Hoey and Arvind Mahajan have established primary cell cultures from crypts isolated from the colon and terminal rectum.