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bowel

[bau-uhl, baul] / ˈbaʊ əl, baʊl /




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Earlier data showed that 59% of patients had no detectable signs of disease after pembrolizumab treatment and their planned bowel cancer surgery.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

The findings suggest that giving a short course of immunotherapy before surgery may provide more durable cancer control for this specific type of bowel cancer than the usual combination of surgery and post-operative chemotherapy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Irritable bowel syndrome, depression, hypertension and benign prostatic hyperplasia were also listed as health conditions Haskins battled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Prostate cancer diagnoses have quadrupled in people under 50 since 2001, while cases of bowel, kidney and uterine cancers have more than doubled, the paper reports.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

In case of an inmate bowel movement that yielded some “prize,” he was to call a sergeant.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

Between my sobs and his sighs, the other servers tucked past, wondering what was happening but not really wanting to deal with the crazy person watching their co-worker badger-dig into the bowels of this cabinet.

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

Down here, in the temple’s literal bowels, there was no faint smell of ink and parchment, only the clashing smells of old wood, sweet hay, and mucked dung.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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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