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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  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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