BOWELS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bowels mean? 

• BOWELS (noun)
  The noun BOWELS has 1 sense:

1. the center of the Earth

  Familiarity information: BOWELS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOWELS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The center of the Earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("bowels" is a kind of...):

center; centre; midpoint (a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure)

 Context examples 

Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAMA) Gastrointestinal symptoms; difficulty swallowing, wind abdominal pain, burning sensations, abdominal fullness, nausea, vomiting, borborygmi, looseness of bowels, loss of weight, constipation.

(HAMA - Gastrointestinal Symptoms, NCI Thesaurus)

It can grow on the ovaries, behind the uterus or on the bowels or bladder.

(Endometriosis, NIH)

A question about whether an individual has or had control of their bowels.

(Have Control of Bowels, NCI Thesaurus)

The Movement Disorder Society version of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) Over the past week have you had constipation troubles that cause you difficulty moving your bowels?

(MDS-UPDRS - Constipation Problems, NCI Thesaurus)

Patient Health Questionnaire - 15 (PHQ-15) Constipation, loose bowels, or diarrhea.

(PHQ-15 - Constipation, Loose Bowels, or Diarrhea, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels.

(Constipation, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels.

(Constipation, NCI Thesaurus)

It may also be the case that the music sped up the absorption of the medication by the bowels.

(Music believed to boost hypertension treatment, Agenciabrasil/EBC)

It may also be the case that the music sped up the absorption of the medication by the bowels, the coordinator said.

(Music believed to boost hypertension treatment, Agência Brasil/EBC)

Bowel incontinence is the inability to control your bowels.

(Bowel Incontinence, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)