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bowel
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
irritable bowel syndrome
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
▪ This review examines the evidence that abnormal oxidative metabolism is of central importance to active inflammatory bowel disease.
chronic
▪ A gluten-free diet could be tried by anyone with chronic bowel problems.
▪ Introduction Familial occurrence of chronic inflammatory bowel disease has been reported in several studies during the past decades.
▪ Design - Cross sectional population based survey of familial occurrence of chronic inflammatory bowel disease.
inflammatory
▪ However, Tsuchiya etal have described an association between thymic abnormalities and inflammatory bowel disease.
▪ Furthermore, cultured mononuclear cells isolated from inflammatory bowel disease mucosa spontaneously secrete large amounts of IgG.
▪ These results confirm increased macrophage activation in inflammatory bowel disease and suggest functional heterogeneity within the intestinal macrophage population.
▪ Introduction Familial occurrence of chronic inflammatory bowel disease has been reported in several studies during the past decades.
▪ Nevertheless the absence of recurrence during long term follow up will be required to exclude underlying idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease.
▪ This case supports the theory that functional disturbances of the thymus may have a role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease.
▪ Patients with gall stones or established inflammatory bowel disease were excluded.
▪ Pronounced changes have been found in gut neuropeptides in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
irritable
▪ The physiological significance of the findings in diarrhoea predominant irritable bowel syndrome patients, which were contrary to expectation, is unknown.
▪ The first four symptoms encompass the six Manning criteria for diagnosing irritable bowel syndrome.
▪ It is not difficult to imagine how a disorder such as irritable bowel syndrome could affect a patient psychologically.
▪ An extra tablespoon sprinkled over the breakfast cereal can help control irritable bowel syndrome, piles, appendicitis and bowel cancer.
▪ This study lacked objective or prospective data and was biased by the exclusion from the controls of people with irritable bowel syndrome.
▪ This was not necessary with irritable bowel syndrome symptoms as their prevalence does not change with age in this population.
▪ It also inhibits motor activity induced by rectal distention and increases sensory thresholds for defaecation in patients with the irritable bowel syndrome.
▪ The same drug given intravenously prevents the postprandial increase in sigmoid segmenting pressure activity in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.
large
▪ This suggests a discrepancy in absorption in both the large and small bowel.
▪ Populations at risk for the development of large bowel cancer are also generally at higher risk for development of coronary heart disease.
▪ A range of genetic alterations have recently been described in colorectal cancer and its benign precursor, the large bowel adenoma.
▪ One of these combinations is p53 and c-ras, both frequently activated in large bowel cancers.
▪ Molecular biology of colorectal neoplasia Large bowel cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the western world.
▪ People who harbour sulphate reducing bacteria in their large bowel have higher levels of sulphide in their faeces than methanogenic subjects.
▪ Discussion Overexpression and mutation of the p53 gene is now well described in large bowel cancer.
▪ There are various ways in which fibre-depleted foods are now thought to be linked with cancer of the large bowel.
normal
▪ After a week or so of this high fibre diet, your constipation should ease and your normal bowel habits return.
▪ Effective H 2 disposal during fermentation is essential for normal large bowel function.
▪ It takes some weeks for the normal bowel bacteria to adjust.
▪ All were of normal body weight, taking a normal diet, and had a normal bowel habit.
▪ All of them eventually died of cardiac failure without the return to normal bowel function.
▪ A normal bowel pattern was accomplished first then toilet training was restarted.
small
▪ A small bowel enema examination was normal.
▪ Particular attention must be paid to gastrointestinal drainage tubes since pancreatic and small bowel secretions are rich in bicarbonate.
▪ This suggests a discrepancy in absorption in both the large and small bowel.
▪ Gastric acid is the primary barrier against orally ingested enteric pathogens, and a major regulator of small bowel flora.
▪ A small bowel barium meal and colonoscopy were performed in eight cases and gastric endosonography was performed in one patient.
▪ Data relating to morphogenesis by small bowel isolates of later development, are limited.
▪ This is a high amplitude burst of contractions that start in the stomach and are propagated distally into the lower small bowel.
■ NOUN
action
▪ Patients often misinterpret their bowel action as well.
▪ The number of bowel actions each week was calculated.
▪ The number of bowel actions in each three day faecal collection was also recorded.
▪ Except for the frequency of bowel actions, there was no difference in gastrointestinal symptoms between the patients and controls.
cancer
▪ Populations at risk for the development of large bowel cancer are also generally at higher risk for development of coronary heart disease.
▪ An extra tablespoon sprinkled over the breakfast cereal can help control irritable bowel syndrome, piles, appendicitis and bowel cancer.
▪ One of these combinations is p53 and c-ras, both frequently activated in large bowel cancers.
▪ Molecular biology of colorectal neoplasia Large bowel cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the western world.
▪ Discussion Overexpression and mutation of the p53 gene is now well described in large bowel cancer.
▪ Patients 102, 205, 206, 304, and 305 died from bowel cancer associated with multiple polyps.
▪ Elizabeth Harrison had extensive surgery for bowel cancer.
▪ Nineth five percent of large bowel cancers showing loss of heterozygosity for 17p alleles also contain a point mutation.
disease
▪ However, Tsuchiya etal have described an association between thymic abnormalities and inflammatory bowel disease.
▪ The mode of action of 5ASA and 4ASA in inflammatory bowel disease is unknown.
▪ Introduction Familial occurrence of chronic inflammatory bowel disease has been reported in several studies during the past decades.
▪ A disturbance in immunoregulatory control has long been suspected to play a major role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease.
▪ Nevertheless the absence of recurrence during long term follow up will be required to exclude underlying idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease.
▪ Six Crohn's disease cultures and a single non-inflammatory bowel disease control were positive for M paratuberculosis.
▪ Patients with gall stones or established inflammatory bowel disease were excluded.
▪ In our previous study, 34 monozygotic pairs with inflammatory bowel disease were found.
function
▪ Prevention New parents may need some information in understanding the developmental progress of bowel function.
▪ Therefore, comparisons of bowel function and transit time were made separately in the two age groups.
▪ There is evidence, however, that the two operations do not differ in their effects on bowel function.
▪ He was embarrassed about the nature of his illness and reluctant to discuss his bowel function with anyone, especially young women.
▪ One of the most distressing aspects of spinal injury is an inability to regulate bowel function.
▪ Effective H 2 disposal during fermentation is essential for normal large bowel function.
▪ Assists in maintaining proper bowel function and affords protection against diverticulosis, haemorrhoids and varicose veins.
▪ All of them eventually died of cardiac failure without the return to normal bowel function.
habit
▪ The genesis of abdominal pain or disordered bowel habit is generally ascribed to abnormal colonic motor function.
▪ Changes in bowel habit may indicate disease of the gastrointestinal tract.
▪ We obtained supportive evidence for this explanation from a double contrast barium enema investigation of a patient complaining of changed bowel habit.
▪ Formation of a stoma requires the patient to change his usual bowel habit.
▪ All were of normal body weight, taking a normal diet, and had a normal bowel habit.
movement
▪ They asked about his speed and his fondness for Pedigree Chum Select Cuts, and all expressed interest in his bowel movements.
▪ Q: I have a bowel movement once a week.
▪ The laxative dose was gradually decreased after two to three months to a dose that maintained one bowel movement daily.
▪ The rocking also helps with blood circulation and bowel movement and with preventing calcium deposits and stones.
▪ My, the clarity and attack of our bowel movements.
▪ After the fire exterminated itself, I flushed the ashes down the toilet after a not-inconsiderable bowel movement.
▪ Five or six bowel movements a day were not uncommon.
▪ Concern about a baby's bowel movements can set the scene for concern and anxiety.
obstruction
▪ She gave a two month history of symptoms typical of intermittent small bowel obstruction before requiring a limited right hemicolectomy.
▪ He died of a bowel obstruction.
▪ Small bowel obstruction continues to occur after this operation despite increasing experience with the procedure.
▪ At age 20 she became pregnant and the pregnancy was complicated by episodes of small and large bowel obstruction.
▪ Seven patients had one or more episodes of partial or complete large bowel obstruction and four others were constipated.
▪ All the patients carried a diagnosis of chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction based on recurrent symptoms of bowel obstruction without physical lesion.
preparation
▪ One further effect worth considering is the bowel preparation before harvesting of the tissue.
▪ All patients underwent bowel preparation and a fasting regimen before operation.
▪ All patients received a traditional two day bowel preparation and were given clear liquids during this time.
▪ These patients underwent a bowel preparation and fasting regimen similar to the other patients in this study.
resection
▪ The antibodies were tested in specimens obtained at bowel resection from patients with Crohn's disease and controls.
▪ Obstructive symptoms then resulted in a further small bowel resection but he did not achieve remission despite prednisolone.
▪ Control subjects Twenty five surgical control patients, admitted for bowel resection for malignant and non-malignant conditions, were studied.
symptom
▪ Ulcerative colitis may present with anaemia when bowel symptoms are mild or ignored.
▪ They were also asked if they had ever consulted a doctor about recurrent bowel symptoms or abdominal pain.
▪ At first there was little change, but after about three weeks his bowel symptoms were much improved.
▪ This patient was put on a yeast-free diet, and given a second psychiatric assessment when her bowel symptoms had resolved.
▪ No known bowel symptoms, but was never investigated.
▪ Three patients declined to come for a check endoscopy immediately after radiotherapy as they had no bowel symptoms.
▪ A colostomy was performed in an attempt to relieve her large bowel symptoms, and subsequently closed.
▪ She did not return for screening until developed bowel symptoms aged 53 years.
syndrome
▪ The physiological significance of the findings in diarrhoea predominant irritable bowel syndrome patients, which were contrary to expectation, is unknown.
▪ The first four symptoms encompass the six Manning criteria for diagnosing irritable bowel syndrome.
▪ It is not difficult to imagine how a disorder such as irritable bowel syndrome could affect a patient psychologically.
▪ An extra tablespoon sprinkled over the breakfast cereal can help control irritable bowel syndrome, piles, appendicitis and bowel cancer.
▪ This study lacked objective or prospective data and was biased by the exclusion from the controls of people with irritable bowel syndrome.
▪ This was not necessary with irritable bowel syndrome symptoms as their prevalence does not change with age in this population.
▪ It also inhibits motor activity induced by rectal distention and increases sensory thresholds for defaecation in patients with the irritable bowel syndrome.
▪ The same drug given intravenously prevents the postprandial increase in sigmoid segmenting pressure activity in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.
wall
▪ All of these treatments, however, suffer from the same inability to reach tumour outside the bowel wall.
▪ Up to 12% of these tumours still confined to the bowel wall have already spread to regional lymph nodes.
▪ A positive reaction was seen in the bowel wall, both in patients with Crohn's disease and in controls.
▪ Diverticular disease is a condition of the bowel caused by abnormal activity of the bowel wall when your diet contains insufficient fibre.
▪ In view of its poor absorption and high local concentration, its site of action seems likely to be within the bowel wall.
▪ In addition, it is possible that colonic decompression may reduce the chance of perforation and improve blood flow to the bowel wall.
■ VERB
move
▪ You did not move your bowels at 7: 30 as I instructed.
▪ Several days had gone by and I had not moved my bowels.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Disease activity must therefore be derived from the degree of abnormal bowel uptake on abdominal scans.
▪ Five or six bowel movements a day were not uncommon.
▪ Furthermore, respiratory and bowel motion cause movement artefacts that frequently degrade the image.
▪ He feels his way through the bowels of the city, conscious of the weight of civilisation above him.
▪ Patients often misinterpret their bowel action as well.
▪ Persistent infection with adenovirus 12 has not been detected in the small bowel of patients with coeliac disease.
▪ Platelet activating factor causes gastrointestinal mucosal injury and ischemic bowel necrosis.
▪ Rises in whole body turnover rates have also been seen in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bowel

Bowel \Bow"el\, n. [OE. bouel, bouele, OF. boel, boele, F. boyau, fr. L. botellus a small sausage, in LL. also intestine, dim. of L. botulus sausage.]

  1. One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.

    He burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
    --Acts i. 18.

  2. pl. Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.

    His soldiers . . . cried out amain, And rushed into the bowels of the battle.
    --Shak.

  3. pl. The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion. ``Thou thing of no bowels.''
    --Shak.

    Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels.
    --Fuller.

  4. pl. Offspring. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

Bowel

Bowel \Bow"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boweled or Bowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Boweling or Bowelling.] To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bowel

c.1300, from Old French boele "intestines, bowels, innards" (12c., Modern French boyau), from Medieval Latin botellus "small intestine," originally "sausage," diminutive of botulus "sausage," a word borrowed from Oscan-Umbrian, from PIE *gwet-/*geut- "intestine" (cognates: Latin guttur "throat," Old English cwið, Gothic qiþus "belly, womb," German kutteln "guts, chitterlings").\n

\nGreek splankhnon (from the same PIE root as spleen) was a word for the principal internal organs, which also were felt in ancient times to be the seat of various emotions. Greek poets, from Aeschylus down, regarded the bowels as the seat of the more violent passions such as anger and love, but by the Hebrews they were seen as the seat of tender affections, especially kindness, benevolence, and compassion. Splankhnon was used in Septuagint to translate a Hebrew word, and from thence early Bibles in English rendered it in its literal sense as bowels, which thus acquired in English a secondary meaning of "pity, compassion" (late 14c.). But in later editions the word often was translated as heart. Bowel movement is attested by 1874.\n

Wiktionary
bowel

n. 1 (context chiefly medicine English) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine. 2 (context in the plural English) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach. 3 (context in the plural English) The (deep) interior (term of English) something. 4 (context in the plural archaic English) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy. 5 (context obsolete in plural English) offspring vb. (context now rare English) To disembowel.

WordNet
bowel

n. the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus [syn: intestine, gut]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "bowel".

The employment of other medicines frequently should be preceded by the administration of an agent of this class, to neutralize excessive acidity in the stomach and bowels.

The bed should be warmed after these are administered and the patient given hot lemonade to bring on free action of the skin, kidneys, and bowels.

Petrarch sighs an indignant complaint, that the ancient capital of the world should adorn from her own bowels the slothful luxury of Naples.

If the battalion had not been going into battle he would have galloped away, found a private spot and voided his bowels, but he could hardly do that now in case his men thought it a sign of weakness and so he raised his canteen instead and swallowed some arrack in the hope that the harsh spirit would calm the turmoil in his belly.

Here, in a vast old abandoned death house, replete with many strange vaulted chambers connected by dark and crumbling passageways winding convolutedly like so many intestines deep into the bowels of the earth, down ever downward, into small niche-pocked vaults filled with damp worm-eaten caskets, many askew and half-opened crypts of the long dead, urns of dust, and the scattered bones of dogs and man, here, chose Zulkeh to rest and ponder his wealth of artifacts and relics, his scrolls and tablets, his talismans and tomes, the fruit gathered of his many journeys.

It might be that one of his caves is down in the bowels of the Monastery somewhere, but who knows?

In the bowels of the caravanserai, young ladies who a year before had been hand-weaving cloth for clothing and hand sewing same were using computers to analyze voice intercepts, running satellite communications gear and managing one of the most advanced battlefield networks to be found in the world.

The digestive organs were double and separate as far as the lower third of the ilium, and the cecum was on the left side and single, in common with the lower bowel.

Ephemerides contains the account of an example of double cecum, and Alexander speaks of a double colon, and there are other cases of duplication of the bowel recorded.

Maya calls cenote and here the water is fresh and good although it is fed not by running streams but rather issues forth from the bowels of the earth.

Sick Headache, Bilious Headache, Dizziness, Constipation, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and all derangements of the stomach and bowels, are promptly relieved and permanently cured by the use of Dr.

Even bowels and skin count as capital dibs if some victim needs them to live.

Oatmeal comes the nearest to wheat in the amount of nitrogen or protein, but the digestible part of this is much smaller than in wheat, and the indigestible portion is decidedly irritating to the bowels, so that if used in excess of about one-fifth of our total starch-food required, it is likely to upset the digestion.

As, in frying, some form of fat has to be used to keep the food from burning, this fat is apt to form a coating over the surface and, if used in excessive amounts, at too low a temperature, may soak deeply into the food, thus coating over every particle of it with a thick, water-proof film, which prevents the juices of the stomach and the upper part of the bowel from attacking and digesting it.

For the Old Geister brooded alone and disconsolate far away in the bowels of his cloud-shrouded citadel, taking scant heed of the affairs of men.