bowel
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The father of two has since lost part of his bowel to cancer and remains too ill to work.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
"One important next step is to determine how this epithelial metabolic pathway operates in human intestinal disease, especially in patients with inflammatory bowel disease," Yu said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
This would include emergency procedures like appendicitis or a blocked bowel.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
He posted on social media about various health ailments, including irritable bowel syndrome and spondylolisthesis, a condition caused by a vertebra slipping out of place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Frenchy’s bowel scourer proved to be so fabulously potent that bottles of it spontaneously exploded in the jockeys’ room lavatory.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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“For a program that’s been around since 2013, it was shocking that you’d come across its cancellation, effectively, in the corner of the bowels of a subpage of the internet.”
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
It’s making fun of yourself in a way — like some old Victorian actor in the bowels of the theater taking his makeup off and wondering what it all means.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
NEW YORK—More than a million fans will visit New York City this month for the World Cup, and many of them will squeeze through the decaying bowels of Pennsylvania Station while they’re here.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
"It spread to my bladder and bowels, causing separate issues and another diagnosis of 'painful bladder syndrome'," she added.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
He was in the dripping, reeking bowels of the earth.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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He lightly runs to earth the quaint Red worm and, deftly troweling, He makes it with his boweling Familiarly acquaint.
From Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce