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bowel

[ UK /bˈa‍ʊə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈbaʊəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus

How To Use bowel In A Sentence

  • In chronic smoldering cases, inflammatory bowel disease can be misdiagnosed, and treatment with steroids only exacerbates the infection.
  • Calis, and so on the mondaie following, [Sidenote: Iohn Hall executed.] he was drawne from the Tower to Tiburne, and there hanged, bowelled, headed, and quartered: his head being sent to Calis there to be set vp, where the duke was murthered. Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
  • The absence of bowel sounds for a full 5 minutes strongly suggests the existence of intestinal atony or ileus, which has many causes.
  • He suffered internal injuries and needed surgery to remove part of his bowel and intestines. Times, Sunday Times
  • They did not quite endorse "dismember and disembowel" as a workable alternative. Beyond Repeal And Replace
  • Seven patients had one or more episodes of partial or complete large bowel obstruction and four others were constipated.
  • Anti-diarrhoeal agents, such as loperamide, are sometimes helpful to reduce bowel frequency but should be avoided in children.
  • Gastric acid is the primary barrier against orally ingested enteric pathogens, and a major regulator of small bowel flora.
  • The same drug given intravenously prevents the postprandial increase in sigmoid segmenting pressure activity in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.
  • The petechiae may give way to ecchymoses (like a petechial rash, but covering larger areas) and other haemorrhagic phenomena such as melaena (bleeding from the upper bowel, passed as altered blood in the faeces), haematuria (blood in the urine), epistaxis Chapter 2
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