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Bowel Body Solid Waste System Rid Part Bow‧El

Front bowel
Back bow‧el /ˈbaʊəl/ noun
1bowels [plural] the system of tubes inside your body where food is made into solid waste material and through which it passes out of your body → intestine
move/empty/open your bowels (=get rid of solid waste from your body)
2[singular] one part of this system of tubes:
cancer of the bowel
3a bowel movement formal the act of getting rid of solid waste from your body
4the bowels of something literary the lowest or deepest part of something
the bowels of the earth (=deep under the ground)

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