Largeintestine vs Bowel - What's the difference?
largeintestine | bowel |
(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:
(in the plural) The (deep) interior of something.
* 1592 , , I. i. 129:
(in the plural, archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
* 1602 , , II. i. 48:
* Fuller
(obsolete, in plural) offspring
* 1604 , , III. i. 29:
To disembowel.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, page 149:
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)- And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out.
- The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship.
- His soldiers cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle.
- Thou thing of no bowels , thou!
- Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels .
- 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 * unbowelVerb
(bowell)- Their bodies are first bowelled , then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].