bowel

noun

/ˈbaʊəl/

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[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
Topics Bodyc2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- large
- small
- irritable
- …
verb + bowel
- empty
- evacuate
- move
- …
bowel + noun
- action
- function
- habit
- …
preposition
- in the bowel
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the bowels of something
[plural] (literary) the part that is deepest inside something内部最深处
- A rumble came from the bowels of the earth (= deep underground).从地下深处传来隆隆的响声。

Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French bouel, from Latin botellus, diminutive of botulus ‘sausage’.