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bowel

[bau-uhl, baul] / ˈbaʊ əl, baʊl /




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The therapy, which brought in $17.6 billion last year, is widely prescribed for patients with autoimmune disorders like inflammatory bowel disease and Crohn’s disease.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

After her last operation she said she was woken 45 minutes later to discover a bowel surgeon had been unavailable, so her endometriosis was left untouched.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Such conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome, result in gastrointestinal symptoms related to the functioning of the autonomic nervous system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Those initial results showed that nine weeks of treatment with the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab before surgery caused major tumor shrinkage in people with stage two or three bowel cancer.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

They talk of their B-trees and Disk Doctors and then have the nerve to complain when I discuss bowel obstructions at the dinner table.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Eventually John meets his fate by falling through a portal into an abandoned mall, then following signs directing him to a manager’s office hidden in its bowels.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

“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

I rounded a corner and blew through a side door into a dark labyrinth that led into the bowels of the mall.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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


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