Med. Obs. Also 5 langaon, 6 longanum, 6–7 longaon, 8 longano(n, longabo; also 6 corruptly longacion, -ation. [Late L. longano(n, -gabo, -gavo, -gao.] The rectum.
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 168. And aftir þis gutt [colon] comeþ langaon, & is þe eende of alle.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, xxv. The longation which is the ars gut. Ibid., ccclxiv. They [the wormes] be in a gutte named the longacion.
1548. Vicary, Anat., viii. 66. The syxte and last is called Rectum or Longaon.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 2 b/2. The gutte Ileon … and the Longanum.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 343. Those creatures … whose meat passes immediatly … into the straight gut Longaon, or the Tiwill.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Longano, Longanon, or Longabo, the Straight Gut, in the Fundament. [In Bailey, Mayne, Expos. Lex., Syd. Soc. Lex.]
