bowel

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Cleansing the bowel is a process that should go beyond the use of laxatives for irregularity.

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  1. noun The intestine. Often used in the plural.
  2. noun A part or division of the intestine: the large bowel.
  3. noun The interior of something: in the bowels of the ship.

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  • The first step in everyone's health program should be stimulating, cleaning and toning all the elimination organs, and the bowel is the best place to begin. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • And what they had said to her was that we think you need surgery to remove the blockage in the bowel which is causing this pain. —  planet.journals.ie
  • With the wonders that modern technology now offers, a colonoscopy now involves inserting a tiny video camera up the large bowel which is attached to a very pliable cord. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • In 2006 it was estimated that over 118,000 patients in the UK were suffering with UC, [7] a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that produces inflammation and ulcers along the inside of the large intestine, also called the bowel or colon. 8 The ulcers and inflammation can interfere with the normal functioning of the bowel, often causing cramping, diarrhoea, bleeding, fatigue, weight loss and frequent bowel movements. —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • Glistening._--So long as the proper glistening appearance of the bowel remains, there is hope for it, even when the colour is bad; if it has lost it, and especially if, instead of being tense and shining, it is dull and flaccid and in wrinkles, the bowel is almost certainly gangrenous 3.) —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French boel, from Latin botellus, small intestine, diminutive of botulus, sausage.

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  1. from Middle English bowel, bowele, bouel, buel, boel, from Old French boel, buel, masculine, also boele, buele, feminine, French boyau (whence prob. English bayou, q. v.) = Provencal budel = Italian budello, from Middle Latin botellus, an intestine, from Latin botellus, a sausage, diminutive of botulus, a sausage, orig. an intestine.
  2. from Middle English bowelen; cf. Old French boeler; from the noun.
 

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/ˈbaʊɛl/
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