bowel
2 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural
bowels
plural
bowels
Britannica Dictionary definition of BOWEL
1
[count]
:
the long tube in the body that helps digest food and carries solid waste out of the body
— often plural
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a disease of the bowel
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a disease that affects the bowels
◊ To have a bowel movement or to move your bowels or (Brit) open your bowels is to pass solid waste from your body.
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The patient made/had a normal bowel movement.
2
the bowels
literary
:
the deep inner parts of something
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They dug deep into the bowels of the earth.
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The engine room is down in the bowels of the ship.
