move bowel

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• bowel — [bou′əl] n. [ME bouel < boele < OFr buele < ML botellum, intestine < L botellus, dim. of botulus, sausage, via Oscan or Umbrian < IE base * gwet , a swelling > OE cwitha, womb] 1. an intestine, esp. of a human being; gut usually …   English World dictionary

• bowel — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ large, small ▪ irritable ▪ irritable bowel syndrome VERB + BOWEL ▪ empty, evacuate …   Collocations dictionary

• Bowel — Another name for the intestine. The small bowel and the large bowel are the small intestine and large intestine, respectively. The word bowel originated from the Latin botulus meaning sausage because the outside of the intestine looked like a… …   Medical dictionary

• move — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 action to achieve sth; change in ideas, etc. ADJECTIVE ▪ big, important, major, radical, significant ▪ decisive ▪ astute …   Collocations dictionary

• move — v 1. budge, stir, change place or position; shift, yield, give way, move over. 2. flit, fly, hie, hop, dart; zoom, vroom, whoosh, sweep, skim, skim along, Sl. breeze in or out or along; wend, meander, gad, gad about. 3. advance, progress, go, go… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• bowel — bow|el [ˈbauəl] n [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: boel, from Medieval Latin botellus, from Latin botulus; BOTULISM] 1.) bowels [plural] the system of tubes inside your body where food is made into solid waste material and through which it …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• bowel — noun 1 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; intestine: move/empty your bowels (=get rid of solid waste from your body) 2 (singular) one… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• bowel — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French buel, boel, from Medieval Latin botellus, from Latin, diminutive of botulus sausage Date: 14th century 1. intestine, gut; also one of the divisions of the intestines usually used in plural except… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• bowel — [[t]ba͟ʊəl[/t]] bowels 1) N COUNT Your bowels are the tubes in your body through which digested food passes from your stomach to your anus. 2) N PLURAL You can refer in a polite way to someone getting rid of the waste from their body by saying… …   English dictionary

• bowel movement — bow′el move ment n. phl the evacuation of the bowels; defecation …   From formal English to slang

• Disease, Hirschsprung — A congenital abnormality (birth defect) of the bowel in which there is absence of the ganglia (nerves) in the wall of the bowel. Nerves are missing starting at the anus and extending a variable distance up the bowel. This results in megacolon… …   Medical dictionary