Its name " colon classification " comes from the use of colons to separate facets in class numbers.

They should not be confused with colon classification.

The colon classification uses 42 main classes that are combined with other letters, numbers and marks in a manner resembling the Library of Congress Classification to sort a publication.

A common example of the colon classification is:

For some common tumors, however, classical staging methods ( such as the Dukes classification for colon cancer ) are still used.

The colon classification developed by S. R. Ranganathan is an example of faceted classification applied to the physical world, specifically for the purpose of organizing library materials.

Early versions of CP / M ( and other microcomputer operating systems ) implemented a " flat " file system on each disk drive, where a complete file reference consisted of a drive letter, a colon, a filename ( up to eight characters ) and a filetype ( three characters ); for instance.

* Digestive system: digestion and processing food with salivary glands, esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, intestines, colon, rectum and anus.

For example, the colon and bladder cancer staging system relies on depth of invasion, staging of breast carcinoma is more dependent on the size of the tumor, and in renal carcinoma, staging is based on both the size of the tumor and the depth of the tumor invasion into the renal sinus.

The large intestine of the horse is a complex system where most digestion takes place, and comprises the cecum, the colon, and the rectum.

Donatus was a proponent of an early system of punctuation, consisting of dots placed in three successively higher positions to indicate successively longer pauses, roughly equivalent to the modern comma, colon, and full stop.

Walker maintained that the Standard American Diet causes the colon to be filled with toxins that strain the eliminative channels and ultimately, the immune system.

Soluble fiber is prebiotic and readily fermented in the colon into gases, while insoluble fiber is metabolically inert and absorbs water as it moves through the digestive system, aiding in defecation.

For obstruction, it can cause compression in the GI tract from the stomach to colon, compression in urinary system, biliary system, and arteriovenous system.

In this, the destruction of the autonomic nervous system innervation of the colon leads to a loss of the normal smooth muscle tone of the wall and subsequent gradual dilation.

Robert Gray referred to " mucoid matter " in his 1990 book on colon health.

In his book Pure and Simple Natural Weight Control, Walker stated: " If the feces in the colon have putrefied and fermented, any nutritional elements present in it would pass into the bloodstream as polluted products.

The aspect ratio is expressed as two numbers separated by a colon ( x: y ).

Sodium retention is also a response of the distal colon, and sweat glands to aldosterone receptor stimulation.

The caecum is either absent or short and simple, and the colon is not sacculated or much wider than the small intestine.

General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland ( depending on the availability of head and neck surgery specialists ).

Based on numerous prospective randomized controlled trials, the approach has proven to be beneficial in reducing post-operative morbidities such as wound infections and incisional hernias ( especially in morbidly obese patients ), and is now deemed safe when applied to surgery for cancers such as cancer of colon.

It is expressed exclusively by mammalian small intestine enterocytes and in very low levels in the colon during fetal development.

It may also occur in the lower limbs or groin after surgery for colon, ovarian or uterine cancer, in which removal of lymph nodes or radiation therapy is required.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet the macron is used to indicate mid tone ; the sign for a long vowel is a modified triangular colon ⟨⟩.

This resistant starch is considered to have similar physiological effects and health benefits as fiber: It provides bulk, offers protection against colon cancer, improves glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity, lowers plasma cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations, increases satiety, and possibly even reduces fat storage.

In Greek, the question mark is written as the English semicolon, while the functions of the colon and semicolon are performed by a raised point (·), known as the ano teleia ( άνω τελεία ).

Recreational physical activity is important to reduce obesity, and the risk of osteoporosis and of cancer, most significantly in men that of colon and prostate, and in women that of the breast ; however, not all malignancies are reduced as outdoor recreation has been linked to a higher risk of melanoma.

Homozygous loss of p53 is found in 70 % of colon cancers, 30 – 50 % of breast cancers, and 50 % of lung cancers.

For example, in French it is customary to insert a non-breaking space before a colon (:) or semicolon (;) in a sentence, while in English it is not.

In other languages such as C and Ada a label is an identifier, usually appearing at the beginning of a line and immediately followed by a colon.

A colon (:) is sometimes used instead of an x, either in the same place the x would go ( B: e5 ) or at the end ( Be5 :).

In some non-English-speaking cultures, " a divided by b " is written a: b. However, in English usage the colon is restricted to expressing the related concept of ratios ( then " a is to b ").

* Ulcerative colitis is marked by chronic bloody diarrhea and inflammation mostly affects the distal colon near the rectum.

In intestinal dialysis, the diet is supplemented with soluble fibres such as acacia fibre, which is digested by bacteria in the colon.

( colon ) sets a variable to the value at the top of the stack ( i. e., assigns the value 3 to the variable a ) and ( semicolon ) reads their values ( i. e., would push 3 onto the stack if a has been assigned 3 ).

However, the method proposed was to eliminate the letter from the character set entirely ( thereby retaining 48 as the number of lexical characters, which the colon had increased to 49 ).

The 64-character set had the disadvantage that two consecutive ':' ( colon ) characters might be interpreted as the end of a line if they fell at the end of a 10-byte word.

In this sense the colon introduces a description ; in particular, it makes explicit the elements of a set.

To avoid repeating the APL special-character problem, J requires only the basic ASCII character set, resorting to the use of the dot and colon as " inflections " to form short words similar to digraphs.

The starting date of fungal taxonomy had been set as January 1, 1821, to coincide with the date of the works of the ' father of mycology ', Swedish naturalist Elias Magnus Fries, which meant the name required sanction by Fries ( indicated in the name by a colon ) to be considered valid, as Bulliard's work preceded this date.

The second line — a colon followed by a name, set flush left — opens the declaration of a word.