bowel

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bow·el /ˈbaʊəl/ ●○○ noun  1  bowels [plural]HBH the system of tubes inside your body where food is made into solid waste material and through which it passes out of your body 肠 → intestinemove/empty/open your bowels (=get rid of solid waste from your body) 排大便2  [singular]HBH one part of this system of tubes 肠道 cancer of the bowel 肠癌3. a bowel movement formalHBH the act of getting rid of solid waste from your body 大解，排便4  the bowels of something literaryALBOTTOM the lowest or deepest part of something 某物的最深处the bowels of the earth (=deep under the ground) 地下深处

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bowel• Disease activity must therefore be derived from the degree of abnormal bowel uptake on abdominal scans.• Furthermore, respiratory and bowel motion cause movement artefacts that frequently degrade the image.• Rises in whole body turnover rates have also been seen in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.• Platelet activating factor causes gastrointestinal mucosal injury and ischemic bowel necrosis.• Five or six bowel movements a day were not uncommon.• Persistent infection with adenovirus 12 has not been detected in the small bowel of patients with coeliac disease.• He feels his way through the bowels of the city, conscious of the weight of civilisation above him.• Patients often misinterpret their bowel action as well.Origin bowel (1200-1300) Old French boel, from Medieval Latin botellus, from Latin botulus; → BOTULISM

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bowel
bow‧el /ˈbaʊəl/ noun1. bowels [plural] the system of tubes inside your body where food is made into solid waste material and through which it passes out of your body ⇨ intestine
    move/empty/open your bowels (=get rid of solid waste from your body)
2. [singular] one part of this system of tubes:
    cancer of the bowel
3. a bowel movement formal the act of getting rid of solid waste from your body
4. the bowels of something literary the lowest or deepest part of something
    the bowels of the earth (=deep under the ground)

bowelBrE /ˈbaʊəl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbaʊəl/ 🔊 noun [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the bowels of sth [plural] (literary) the part that is deepest inside sth 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。🔊🔊