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large bowel

n. (context anatomy English) The colon; the final segment of the digestive system.

Usage examples of "large bowel".

Using fluoroscopy, the radiologist can now see the end of the large bowel, where the cramping occurs.

Big juicy metastasized carcinoma right on the large bowel with filaments going out in every direction.

I'd repaired part of the large bowel and sutured a couple of arteries, there were some nasty lesions and he wasn't healing as I would have liked, his liver was.

She arrived with extensive internal injuries and hemorrhaging, severe damage to the liver and spleen, and the large bowel.

They fell open on cobblestones and spilled out their illustrative woodcuts: portraits of great men, depictions of the Siege of Vienna, diagrams of mining-engines, a map of some Italian city, a dissection of the large bowel, vast tables of numbers, musketeer drills, geometers’.