bowel

2 definitions • 3 examples

the long tube that carries solid waste from the stomach out of the body:

He has trouble with his bowels.

bowel cancer/cancer of the bowel

(said especially by doctors and nurses) to excrete (= pass from the body) the solid waste that is contained in the bowels:

The patient had complained of general abdominal pain and difficulty moving her bowels for the past four days.