back passage

noun

1. the rectum

2. an interior passageway towards the back of a building

Example Sentences

She was eventually referred to a colorectal surgeon, six months after she gave birth, who diagnosed the injury as what is known as a rectal buttonhole - a rare injury that occurs when there is a hole between the back passage and the vagina.

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If there is bleeding, you'll be offered a colonoscopy to find out the cause - when a tube with a camera on the end is placed into your back passage to look inside your large bowel.

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He also said gun control organizations have held back passage in Congress of legislation giving states with concealed weapons laws reciprocity in all other states.

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Narrow stairs lead up the face of the dam and down the other side, though vandals recently pried loose a concrete slab, partially blocking the back passage.

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"I tore basically from the vagina to the back passage, all the way along - and when I went into surgery, they found it had cut into the bowel," she tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.

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