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.

In the colon classification system, a book is assigned a set of values from independent facets.

Recently, tests have been developed to detect mutation for a handful of more complex conditions such as breast, ovarian, and colon cancers.

He also developed and recovered from colon cancer.

Dulles developed colon cancer for which he was first operated in November 1956 when it had caused a bowel perforation.

He developed new procedures, such as the colon interposition graft for correcting esophageal atresia ( congenital lack of continuity of the esophagus ) or ventriculoperitoneal shunts for treatment of hydrocephalus ( accumulation of excessive cerebral spinal fluid in and around the brain causing neurological problems ).

Therapeutic cancer vaccines are being developed for the treatment of breast, lung, colon, skin, kidney, prostate, and other cancers.

In addition to the isolation of HIV-1 and HIV-2, in the recent past researchers at the Pasteur Institute have developed a test for the early detection of colon cancer, produced a genetically engineered vaccine against hepatitis B and a rapid diagnostic test for the detection of the Helicobacter pylori bacterium which is implicated in the formation of stomach ulcers.

The surgical procedure for forming an ileo-anal pouch was developed as an alternative to the ileostomy where, in the absence of a colon, intestinal waste is emptied into a bag attached to the abdomen.

Due to the increased availability of new chemotherapies developed for colon and colorectal cancer patients, some patients have experienced stability in tumor growth with systemic chemotherapy.

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

Multiple commands could be included on the same line of code if separated by a colon ().

From the 6th century BC, they are separated by a dot or a colon, which symbol might also be used to separate syllables.

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

Postconditionals: execution of almost all commands can be controlled by following it with a colon and a truthvalue expression.

They have been credited with popularizing the practice of ending sentences with the colon or full stop, inventing the semicolon, making occasional use of parentheses and creating the modern comma by lowering the virgule.

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 ).

A semicolon (;) was produced by printing a comma (,) over a colon (:).

Every URL consists of some of the following: the scheme name ( commonly called protocol ), followed by a colon, two slashes, then, depending on scheme, a server name ( exp.

It has been reported that MK7 may be converted from phylloquinone ( K < sub > 1 </ sub >) in the colon by E-coli bacteria.

Recent research results also demonstrate that the small intestine and large intestine ( colon ) seem to be inefficient at absorbing vitamin K. These results are reinforced by human cohort studies, where a majority of the subjects showed inadequate vitamins K amounts in the body.

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.

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 ").

It can also be caused by tuberculosis, colon cancer, and enteritis.

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

The advanced transport, for example, allows octet-strings to be represented verbatim ( the string's length followed by a colon and the entire raw string ), a quoted form allowing escape characters, hexadecimal, Base64, or placed directly as a " token " if it meets certain conditions.

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

The colon indicates that the words following an individual's name are spoken by that individual.

In many European languages the colon is usually followed by a lower-case letter ( unless the upper case is required for other reasons, such as for a proper noun ).

However, usage differs from this in German, where an upper-case letter may be used only if the sentence after the colon could stand alone without the preceding sentence ( otherwise one may judge freely according to the relative independence of the two assertions ), and in Dutch, where an upper-case letter must be used if the colon is followed by a quotation or an enumeration of complete sentences, although in all other cases a lower-case letter should be used.

The older convention ( designed to be used by monospaced fonts ) was to use two spaces after a colon.

When a quotation is followed by other writing on a line of text, a space follows the closing quotation mark unless it is immediately followed by other punctuation within the sentence, such as a colon or closing punctuation.

According to the British writer on grammar, Lynne Truss, many non-writers avoid the colon and semicolon for various reasons: " They are old-fashioned ", " They are middle-class ", " They are optional ", " They are mysteriously connected to pausing ", " They are dangerously addictive ( vide Virginia Woolf )", and " The difference between them is too negligible to be grasped by the brain of man ".

In Swedish, the colon is used in contractions, such as S: t for Sankt ( Swedish for " Saint "), e. g. in the Stockholm metro station S: t Eriksplan.

S. intercalatum's eggs are specific to the colon, making them unique among the infectious African schistosomes.

The small intestine and colon contained approximately 300 cc. of foul-smelling, sanguineous material, and the mucosa throughout was hyperemic and mottled green-brown.

A section of the colon revealed intense hyperemia and extensive focal ulcerations of the mucosa, associated with much fibrin and many neutrophils.

Effects on the intestinal flora, which might result in reduced absorption of estrogens in the colon, have also been suggested, but such suggestions have been inconclusive and controversial.

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

Veterans from the south had higher rates of throat cancer, acute / chronic leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, prostate cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, soft tissue sarcoma and liver cancer.

Due to their larger size, and corresponding difficulty with surviving the stomach, colon and liver, biopharmaceuticals are typically injected.

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

Nitrosamines, present in processed and cooked foods, have also been noted as being carcinogenic, being linked to colon cancer.

Some studies have shown that ingredients in curry may help to prevent certain diseases, including colon cancer and Alzheimer's disease.

A 1973 diagnosis of colon cancer, however, led Atkins to redefine his role at RCA, to allow others to handle administration while he went back to his first love, the guitar, often recording with Reed or even Homer & Jethro's Jethro Burns ( Atkins's brother-in-law ) after Homer died in 1971.

** – colon, used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to mark long vowels.

The tilde, dot, comma, titlo, apostrophe, bar, and colon are sometimes diacritical marks, but also have other uses.

Papyri discoveries have indicated, for example, that a change in speakers was loosely denoted with a variety of signs, such as the equivalent of the modern dash, colon and full-stop.

Crick died of colon cancer on 28 July 2004 at the University of California San Diego ( UCSD ) Thornton Hospital in La Jolla ; he was cremated and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.

In 2006 he underwent surgery for a malignant tumour in his colon, discovered after an examination on 3 June.

General surgeons treat a wide variety of major and minor colon and rectal diseases including inflammatory bowel diseases ( such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease ), diverticulitis, colon and rectal cancer, gastrointestinal bleeding and hemorrhoids.

MSI and LOH in particular have been associated with cancer cell genotypes for colon, breast and cervical cancer.

* Surgery ( radiation therapy, surgery of the colon, prostate, bladder, or rectum may damage the nerves and blood vessels involved in erection.

In 1985, President Reagan entered Bethesda Naval Hospital for colon cancer surgery.