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bowel

noun
🔊/ˈbaʊəl/
🔊/ˈbaʊəl/
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  1. [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
    • Patients are asked to report any change in bowel habit.病人被要求报告大便习惯的任何变化。
    • irritable bowel syndrome肠易激综合症
    Topics Bodyc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • large
    • small
    • irritable
    • …
    verb + bowel
    • empty
    • evacuate
    • move
    • …
    bowel + noun
    • action
    • function
    • habit
    • …
    preposition
    • in the bowel
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  2. the bowels of something
     [plural] (literary) the part that is deepest inside something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。🔊🔊
    3. Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French bouel, from Latin botellus, diminutive of botulus ‘sausage’.