Definition of Bowel. Meaning of Bowel. Synonyms of Bowel

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Definition of Bowel

Bowel
Bowel Bow"el, n. [OE. bouel, bouele, OF. boel, boele, F. boyau, fr. L. botellus a small sausage, in LL. also intestine, dim. of L. botulus sausage.] 1. One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural. He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. --Acts i. 18. 2. pl. Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth. His soldiers . . . cried out amain, And rushed into the bowels of the battle. --Shak. 3. pl. The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion. ``Thou thing of no bowels.' --Shak. Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels. --Fuller. 4. pl. Offspring. [Obs.] --Shak.
Bowel
Bowel Bow"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boweled or Bowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Boweling or Bowelling.] To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

Meaning of Bowel from wikipedia

- Bowel obstruction, also known as intestinal obstruction, is a mechanical or functional obstruction of the intestines which prevents the normal movement...
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a group of symptoms—including abdominal pain and changes in the pattern of bowel movements without any evidence of underlying...
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestine. Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are the...
- Constipation refers to bowel movements that are infrequent or hard to p****. The stool is often hard and dry. Other symptoms may include abdominal pain...
- symptoms to IBS. Bowel twist (or similarly, bowel strangulation) is a comparatively rare event (usually developing sometime after major bowel surgery). It...
- Crohn's disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that may affect any segment of the gastrointestinal tract from the mouth to the ****. Symptoms...
- Ileus originally referred to any lack of digestive propulsion, including bowel obstruction, but current medical usage restricts its meaning only to those...
- twists around itself and the mesentery that supports it, resulting in a bowel obstruction. Symptoms include abdominal pain, abdominal bloating, vomiting...
- (/kəˈlɒskəpi/) is the endoscopic examination of the large bowel and the distal part of the small bowel with a CCD camera or a fiber optic camera on a flexible...
- immediately ahead of it. It typically involves the small bowel and less commonly the large bowel. Symptoms include abdominal pain which may come and go...
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