See Also: cohort(medicine)
Cohort(health)
cohort(dictionary)
cohort(dictionary)
cohort effect(medicine)
cohort studies(medicine)
cohort study(medicine)
Birth cohort(health)
Cohort study(health)

bowel (oh) and cohort (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)

cohort (medicine)


cohort
<statistics> A cohort is a group of animals of the same species, identified by a common characteristic, which are studied over a period of time as part of a scientific or medical investigation.