How to Use colonic in a Sentence

colonic

1 of 2 adjective
  • Gastric acid helps digest food and might urge colonic activity.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022
  • His death was disclosed only on Wednesday, with the cause given as colonic cancer.
    — Mark Schilling, Variety, 7 Sep. 2022
  • After 13 weeks, the researchers screened the pigs’ colonic tissue for markers tied to colon cancer.
    — Health.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Right now there’s not a lot people can do to prevent colonic cancers, Ben-Neriah says.
    — Hannah Seo, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Ironically, one way to make the material in your colon as dangerous as colonic practitioners claim is to blast it with water.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2014
  • Doctors sometimes test colonic transit time for diagnostic purposes using high-tech markers and imaging tools.
    — Mary Allen, Allure, 6 Sep. 2017
  • In general, the people who seek colonic hydrotherapy are often those who suffer from constipation.
    — Julie Schott, The Cut, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Sound baths, colonic hydrotherapy and salt saunas all also featured in the top trending treatments of this year, with searches having increased by 83% for each.
    — Debbi Kickham, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Some of the byproducts of this colonic amino acid metabolism may negatively affect epithelial cells residing there.
    — Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Yet, colonic irrigation methods and the unfounded notion that toxin build-up in your body from foods (auto-intoxication) have lingered for centuries.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2018
  • Diarrhea is often an exaggeration of normal colonic function and frequently occurs within hours of eating.
    — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Your colon heeds this order by initiating giant migrating contractions, which are intense and sustained contractions that propel colonic contents forward.
    — Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Earlier this year, for example, it was found that an antibiotic primarily used in veterinary medicine was able to convince the microbes in mouse guts to produce colonic acid, a life-extending compound.
    — New Atlas, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Fulcher’s cause of death was determined to be sepsis, peritonitis and colonic perforation, along with the instrument left in his body during surgery, per Cleveland 19 News.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
  • This may help with improving gut barrier function, antioxidant effects, and helping mitigate colonic inflammation.
    — Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Short-chain fatty acids such as acetate, propionate and butyrate – the metabolic end products of the majority of saccharolytic colonic bacteria – are the focus of much current research linking the gut to other organs1.
    — Enea Rezzonico, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2015
  • Several two-day Wellness Programs are also on offer and range from a Nervous System Rebalance to a Metabolic Reset and include therapies, such as manual lymphatic drainage and colonic hydrotherapy.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025

colonic

2 of 2 noun
  • But whether colonics are necessary or even safe is up for debate.
    — Karyn Repinski, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Feb. 2016
  • The entire program here is based on juice fasting—oh, and colonics.
    — Liz Krieger, Town & Country, 1 Mar. 2023
  • And like any true cool kids, colonics are shrouded in an air of tangible mystique.
    — Tayler Adigun, Essence, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The use of colonics to cleanse the colon is a particular concern for Ni.
    — Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The benefits lasted for days, says Packer, who now gets a colonic at least once a month.
    — Karyn Repinski, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Feb. 2016
  • Offerings include colonics as well as massages, facials and scrubs.
    — Beth Landman, HollywoodReporter, 28 Feb. 2026
  • These helpful creatures can be wiped out by antibiotics and other drug therapies, colonics, or even a bad case of diarrhea.
    — Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2015
  • Still, the cramps can be violent enough to stop me from leaving the house, and the effect on my bowels is a free monthly colonic irrigation.
    — Anna Richards, Outside, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The participants received a colonoscopy or colonic surgery for primary colorectal cancer soon after.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 30 May 2023
  • But other experts dispute those claims, saying that there's truly no need to give yourself a coffee enema or colonic literally ever.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Where Marie Kondo takes a kind of the high-fiber, eat more fruits and vegetables for a gentle joyful purging; Sasaki is direct, more high-colonic.
    — Mark Haskell Smith, latimes.com, 11 May 2017
  • In both cases, caffeine can stimulate digestive secretions and colonic contractions, Volpe says.
    — Karen Asp, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 July 2023
  • His Gravity colonic uses the natural pull of gravity to introduce non-pressurized water into the body from a tank raised above the table.
    — Crystal Martin, The Cut, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Until Moscow takes a massive colonic, one that can cleanse its bloated system of evil, lies, extortion, cheating, hacking, war crimes and narcissism, never again.
    — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2022
  • Coffee enemas and colonics have long been considered a popular-yet-wacky alternative wellness remedy.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Another thought was that calcium may help support the process in which unspecified cells become epithelial cells and enhance apoptosis, the process by which old cells are removed from the colonic lining.
    — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Stenosis, a rare complication of colonic diverticulitis, can cause bowel obstruction and must be taken care of immediately.
    — Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
  • This new outpost offers a few additional treatments including colonics and energy healings — which incorporate techniques such as hypnosis and sound therapy.
    — Eimear Lynch Monica Khemsurov Kurt Soller Gisela Williams Caitie Kelly Elissa Suh, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The hotel’s wellness center offers Ayurvedic herbal scrubs, Reiki, hydrotherapy, lymphatic draining massages, colonics and acupuncture.
    — Sandra Guzmán, USA Today, 18 June 2026
  • In a moment of gastrointestinal intimacy, the colonic hydrotherapist told me to chew some of my vegetables, particularly green peppers, more vigorously.
    — Alex Kuczynski, Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2016
  • Many practitioners believe these additions can enhance a colonic’s detoxifying capabilities.
    — Erica Sweeney, Time, 11 May 2026
  • The average three-to-seven stay at We Care Spa includes meditation sound healing, nutrition classes, yoga, colonics and spa treatments like a full-body castor oil wrap on a heated amethyst mat that includes scalp, neck, shoulder.
    — Beth Landman, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Starting this month, there will be various programming and panel discussions surrounding topics like gut health, birthing, natural beauty, and food combining with specialists that range from a colonics expert to nutrition author Daphne Oz.
    — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2018

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