The sound is often depicted orthographically as “ ah .” The colon after the indicates that the vowel is lengthened.

The is often depicted orthographically as “ ah .” The colon after the indicates that the vowel is lengthened.

Punctuation includes a comma ; period ; a mark that covers the colon, quotations, and indicates numerals ; and marks to introduce a chapter, poem, song, or letter.

In other words, the sentence after the colon is in apposition to the one before the colon.

In Finnish and Swedish, the colon can appear inside words in a manner similar to the apostrophe in the English possessive case, connecting a grammatical suffix to an abbreviation or initialism, a special symbol, or a digit ( e. g., Finnish USA: n for the genitive case of " USA ", %: ssa for the inessive case of "%", or 20: een for the illative case of " 20 ").

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.

Most such " primary " ( or " primitive ") J words serve as mathematical symbols, with the dot or colon extending the meaning of the basic characters available.

Seneca words are written with 16 letters plus the colon (:) and the acute accent mark.

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

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.

In British English, the word following the colon is in lower case unless it is a proper noun or an acronym, or is normally capitalized for some other reason.

However, in American English, many writers capitalize the word following a colon if it begins an independent clause, i. e. a clause which could stand as a complete sentence.

Pancreatic cancer has been associated with the following syndromes: autosomal recessive ataxia-telangiectasia and autosomal dominantly inherited mutations in the BRCA2 gene and PALB2 gene, Peutz-Jeghers syndrome due to mutations in the STK11 tumor suppressor gene, hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer ( Lynch syndrome ), familial adenomatous polyposis, and the familial atypical multiple mole melanoma-pancreatic cancer syndrome ( FAMMM-PC ) due to mutations in the CDKN2A tumor suppressor gene.

Eqbal died in Islamabad in 1999 of heart failure following an operation for colon cancer.

The following year, shortly after Capitol debuted, she was diagnosed with colon cancer, and played many of her scenes in a wheelchair.

Charlie Bell, the company's president and chief operating officer, was chosen to succeed Cantalupo as CEO but stepped down the following November 22 to seek treatment for colon cancer, being succeeded by vice chairman Jim Skinner as CEO and by Michael Roberts as president.

Not long after the Over My Heart album's release, Branigan left the music industry in 1994 to spend more time with Kruteck following his diagnosis of colon cancer.

In such a case the ileostomy may be temporary, as the common surgical procedure for colorectal cancer is to reconnect the remaining sections of colon or rectum following removal of the tumor provided that enough of the rectum remains intact to preserve sphincter function.

Diversion colitis is an inflammation of the colon which can occur as a complication of ileostomy or colostomy, often occurring within the year following the surgery.

The following year, he died from colon cancer on March 5, 1929 at the age of 74.

A study released in April 2009 found that bevacizumab is not effective at preventing recurrences of non-metastatic colon cancer following surgery.

In November 2005, Rogers contracted pneumonia of both lungs as a complication of colon cancer treatments, and died following a period of mechanical ventilation at the age of seventy-four.

On November 15, 2005, Rogers died of complications following colon cancer treatment at age 74.

Powell died slowly and painfully of colon cancer which afflicted her in 1964 and killed her the following year, in the same week as the first great New York blackout.

Absence of BMP signalling is, for instance, an important factor in the progression of colon cancer and conversely overactivation of BMP signalling following reflux-induced esophagitis provokes Barrett's esophagus and is thus instrumental in the development of adenocarcinoma in the proximal portion of the gastrointestinal tract.

In the following, label is an optional identifier terminated by a colon, and block is a sequence of one of more Perl statements surrounded by braces.

Nasal vowels are indicated with an ogonek, long vowels with a following colon, <: >, and ( which may actually be ) with < e >.

The authors suggested that intake of an additional 1, 000 international units ( IU ) ( or 25 micrograms ) of vitamin D daily reduced an individual's colon cancer risk by 50 %, and breast and ovarian cancer risks by 30 %.

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

Slots are accessor methods that return values, and placing a colon after the name of a slot sets the value.

Ultimately a new clinical trial and FDA filing prepared by Imclone's partner Merck KGaA (" German Merck ," not to be confused with the US company of similar name ) resulted in an FDA approval of Erbitux in 2004 for use in colon cancer.

The connection between the end of the small intestine ( ileum ) and the start of the colon ( cecum ) is now clearly understood, but the name has not changed.

It also introduces us to a new hero, and, as a fitting act of deference, I am going to put down a colon before writing his name: Aldus Manutius the Elder.

echo $@ evaluates to current TARGET name from among those left of the colon.

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.

A MUF word declaration opens with a colon and the name of the word, followed by the primitives, data, and identifiers that make up the word's code.

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

Fecal occult blood testing ( FOBT ), as its name implies, aims to detect subtle blood loss in the gastrointestinal tract, anywhere from the mouth to the colon.

A related concept to colon cancer screening by FOBT, based on most neoplasms affecting the surface epithelium and losing small amounts of blood but no visible blood loss, is screening in populations at high risk for esophageal or gastric cancers by testing for blood by swallowing a small capsule that is recovered after 3 to 5 minutes by gentle retrieval by means of an attached nylon thread .< ref name =" pmid8416718 ">

Lines consist of the name of a character, a colon, and one or more sentences.

Technically the name has a colon in place of the letter " I ", but it is pronounced ( and often erroneously written ) like the common word " emit ".

The field name is separated from the value by a colon (:).

To invoke an Objective-C method, you replace each colon in the method name except the last with an underscore.

Anticancer properties have been attributed to CLA, and studies on mice and rats show encouraging results in hindering the growth of tumors in mammary ( except Her2 breast cancer ), skin, and colon tissues .< ref name =" CLAipc ">

Partial directories can be loaded by adding a colon and a template, for example would load a partial directory that shows only the files whose name starts with the letter K and which are of type PRG ; all such partial directories still contain the initial disk name line and the final " BLOCKS FREE " line.

A higher TK activity is found in neoplastic than in normal tissue, in brain tumours, in hematological malignancies, in cancer and polyps in colon ,< ref name =" pmid5110642 "> in breast cancer, in lung cancer ,< ref name =" pmid6277448 ">< ref name =" pmid2983858 "> in gastric cancers, in ovarian cancer, in mesotheliomas, in melanomas and in thyroid tumours.