- [countable, usually plural]
the tube along which food passes after it has been through the stomach, especially the end where waste is collected before it is passed out of the body 肠 - (
medical 医学 to empty/move/open your bowels (= to pass solid waste out of the body) 解大便 bowel cancer/cancer of the bowel 肠癌 Patients are asked to report any change in bowel habit. 病人被要求报告大便习惯的任何变化。 irritable bowel syndrome 肠易激综合症
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- large
- small
- irritable
- …
- empty
- evacuate
- move
- …
- action
- function
- habit
- …
- in the bowel
- (
- the bowels of something[plural] (literary)
the part that is deepest inside something 内部最深处
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French bouel, from Latin botellus, diminutive of botulus ‘sausage’.