See Also: Bowel(medicine)
bowel(dictionary)
Bowel(health)
bowel(dictionary)
Bowel sounds(health)
Bowel prep(health)
Bowel movement(health)
intramural bowel gas(medicine)
gay bowel syndrome(medicine)
bowel sounds(medicine)

bowel (oh)



[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: boel, from Medieval Latin botellus, from Latin botulus; BOTULISM]
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
-see also intestine intestine
move/empty/open your bowels
(=get rid of solid waste from your body)
[singular] one part of this system of tubes
::cancer of the bowel
a bowel movement
formal the act of getting rid of solid waste from your body
the bowels of sth
literary the lowest or deepest part of something
the bowels of the earth
(=deep under the ground)