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noun

Bowel n.

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."

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."

pl. The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion. "Thou thing of no bowels." "Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels."

pl. Offspring. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bowel" Quotes from Famous Books

... the abdominal muscles are paralysed. The respiratory movements are thus impeded, and, as the patient is unable to cough, mucus gathers in the air-passages and there is a tendency to broncho-pneumonia. As the patient is unable to aid defecation or to expel flatus by straining, the bowel is liable to become distended with faeces and gas, and the meteorism which results adds to the embarrassment of respiration by pressing on the diaphragm. There is retention of urine followed by dribbling from overflow. As the reflex arc is intact there may be involuntary and unconscious ...

— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

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