rectum: [16] Rectum is one of a range of words bequeathed to English by Latin rēctus ‘straight, correct’ (a distant relative of English right). Others include rectangle [16], rectify [14], and rectitude [15]. Rectum itself is short for rēctum intestīnum ‘straight intestine’ – a term contrasting the rectum with the convolutions of the remainder of the intestines. => direct, rectify, rectitude, right
rectum (n.)
early 15c., from Latin intestinum rectum "straight intestine," in contrast to the convolution of the rest of the bowels, from neuter past participle of regere "to straighten" (see regal). A loan-translation of Greek apeuthysmeon enteron, "the name given to the lowest part of the large intestine by Galen, who so called it because he dissected only animals whose rectum (in contradistinction to that of man) is really straight" [Klein].
雙語例句
1. Treatment sometimes involves removing the large intestine including the rectum.
治療往往要去掉大腸,其中包括直腸.
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2. Then the lining is separated from the rectum's muscular wall.
然後將直腸的肌壁與粘膜分離開.
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3. The patient's temperature should be obtained by rectum.
病人的體溫自直腸測得.
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4. Hard plastic enema tips can perforate the rectum.
硬的塑料灌腸嘴會刺破直腸.
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5. In the new operation, the surgeon removes the colon but leaves the rectum in place.