bowel
bowel /ˈbaʊ.əl/ /baʊəl/ noun [C usually plural]
1 F0 the long tube that carries solid waste from the stomach out of the body: » He has trouble with his bowels.» bowel cancer/cancer of the bowelThesaurus+: ↑The digestive systemmove your bowels2 F0 (said especially by doctors and nurses) to excrete (= pass from the body) the solid waste that is contained in the bowels Thesaurus+: ↑Excrement and its excretion |