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Largeintestine vs Bowel - What's the difference?

largeintestine | bowel |

As a noun bowel is

(chiefly|medicine) a part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.

As a verb bowel is

to disembowel.

largeintestine

Not English

Largeintestine has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

bowel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
  • (in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts I:
  • And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out.
  • (in the plural) The (deep) interior of something.
  • The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship.
  • * 1592 , , I. i. 129:
  • His soldiers cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle.
  • (in the plural, archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
  • * 1602 , , II. i. 48:
  • Thou thing of no bowels , thou!
  • * Fuller
  • Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels .
  • (obsolete, in plural) offspring
  • * 1604 , , III. i. 29:
  • Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels , which do call thee sire,

    Derived terms

    * bowel cancer * bowel movement * bowel obstruction * bowelless * disbowel * disembowel * embowel * irritable bowel syndrome * large bowel * unbowel

    Verb

    (bowell)
  • To disembowel.
  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, page 149:
  • Their bodies are first bowelled , then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].

    See also

    * large bowel * small bowel * small intestine * colon * laxative * tharm

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