bowel

bowel [bou-uh l, boul] ExamplesWord Origin noun

1. Anatomy.
   1. Usually bowels.the intestine.
   2. a part of the intestine.
2. bowels,
   1. the inward or interior parts: the bowels of the earth.
   2. Archaic.feelings of pity or compassion.

verb (used with object), bow·eled, bow·el·ing or (especially British) bow·elled, bow·el·ling.

3. to disembowel.

Origin of bowel 1250–1300; Middle English b(o)uel Old French Latin botellus little sausage (bot(ulus) sausage + -ellus -elle)Related formsbow·el·less, adjective Related Words for bowel core, guts, innards, entrails, deep, viscera, belly, interior, hold, intestines, penetralia, recesses, vitals Examples from the Web for bowel Contemporary Examples of bowel

Anything in your gut sticks to the surface of charcoal like a magnet and gets carried out through a bowel movement.

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September 20, 2014

The tumor in his colon had spread to four of his lymph nodes and penetrated the bowel wall.

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ProPublica

April 23, 2014

“My dog has just had to learn good bladder and bowel control,” he jokes.

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March 22, 2014

They can even help your digestion and the regularity of your bowel movements.

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January 2, 2014

Oprah Winfrey guest starred on 30 Rock and talked about bowel movements.

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January 31, 2013

Historical Examples of bowel

Bowel hygiene is an important part of the management of pregnancy.

The Mother and Her Child

William S. Sadler

In the first place, a definite time must be selected for bowel action.

The Mother and Her Child

William S. Sadler

Bowel movements may be regulated more easily than the urination.

The Mother and Her Child

William S. Sadler

If the bowel is at fault, constipation is the usual consequence.

The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4)

W. Grant Hague

The irrigations should be given every second night until the bowel is clean.

The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4)

W. Grant Hague

British Dictionary definitions for bowel bowel noun

1. an intestine, esp the large intestine in man
2. (plural) innards; entrails
3. (plural) the deep or innermost part (esp in the phrase the bowels of the earth)
4. (plural) archaic the emotions, esp of pity or sympathy

Word Origin for bowel C13: from Old French bouel, from Latin botellus a little sausage, from botulus sausage Word Origin and History for bowel n.

c.1300, from Old French boele “intestines, bowels, innards” (12c., Modern French boyau), from Medieval Latin botellus “small intestine,” originally “sausage,” diminutive of botulus “sausage,” a word borrowed from Oscan-Umbrian, from PIE *gwet-/*geut- “intestine” (cf. Latin guttur “throat,” Old English cwið, Gothic qiþus “belly, womb,” German kutteln “guts, chitterlings”).

Greek splankhnon (from the same PIE root as spleen) was a word for the principal internal organs, which also were felt in ancient times to be the seat of various emotions. Greek poets, from Aeschylus down, regarded the bowels as the seat of the more violent passions such as anger and love, but by the Hebrews they were seen as the seat of tender affections, especially kindness, benevolence, and compassion. Splankhnon was used in Septuagint to translate a Hebrew word, and from thence early Bibles in English rendered it in its literal sense as bowels, which thus acquired in English a secondary meaning of “pity, compassion” (late 14c.). But in later editions the word often was translated as heart. Bowel movement is attested by 1874.

bowel in Medicine bowel [bou′əl, boul] n.

1. The intestine. Often used in the plural.

bowel in Science bowel [bou′əl]

1. The intestine.