Synonym: gut, intestine. Similar words: bowed, bower, towel, trowel, bow, bowl, elbow, bow tie. Meaning: n. the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus.
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121. It also inhibits motor activity induced by rectal distention and increases sensory thresholds for defaecation in patients with the irritable bowel syndrome.
122. New corticosteroid compounds with high topical and little systemic activity seem to offer great benefit to inflammatory bowel disease patients.
123. One further effect worth considering is the bowel preparation before harvesting of the tissue.
124. Concern about a baby's bowel movements can set the scene for concern and anxiety.
125. Diverticular disease is a condition of the bowel caused by abnormal activity of the bowel wall when your diet contains insufficient fibre.
126. Up to 12% of these tumours still confined to the bowel wall have already spread to regional lymph nodes.
127. The rise in eicosanoid inflammatory mediators may have an important role in the pathophysiology of the early radiation bowel reaction.
128. Even quite ordinary forms of stress can have an exaggerated effect on an irritable bowel.
129. Pieces of the bowel or stomach wall may slough off in diarrhea.
130. All patients received a traditional two day bowel preparation and were given clear liquids during this time.
131. All the patients carried a diagnosis of chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction based on recurrent symptoms of bowel obstruction without physical lesion.
132. These patients underwent a bowel preparation and fasting regimen similar to the other patients in this study.
133. In the other subjects liquid bowel movements stopped after 24 hours.
134. Gastric acid is the primary barrier against orally ingested enteric pathogens, and a major regulator of small bowel flora.
135. These results also question the rationale of using n3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease.
136. The number of bowel actions in each three day faecal collection was also recorded.
137. Mr Reynolds admitted that he had been afraid to eat or drink because of the possible effects on his bowel and bladder.
138. She suffered from diarrhoea with pain and bloating, which had been diagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome.
139. The possible therapeutic effect of a specific receptor antagonist in inflammatory bowel disease remains to be evaluated.
140. The earliest presentation with cancer of the bowel in this series was 21 years.
141. They studied 27 patients suffering from irritable bowel syndrome who believed themselves to have food allergy or intolerance.
142. No patient had a coexisting medical complaint likely to affect bile acid metabolism nor had any undergone previous bowel surgery other than appendicectomy.
143. Formation of a stoma requires the patient to change his usual bowel habit.
144. The antibodies were tested in specimens obtained at bowel resection from patients with Crohn's disease and controls.
145. All of them eventually died of cardiac failure without the return to normal bowel function.
146. Antibiotics were also prescribed for 48 hours prior to the operation to reduce the bacteria normally present in the bowel.
147. One of these presented with a perforated small bowel lymphoma and died shortly after diagnosis.
148. This review examines the evidence that abnormal oxidative metabolism is of central importance to active inflammatory bowel disease.
149. A disturbance in immunoregulatory control has long been suspected to play a major role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease.
150. Extensive preparation of the gastrointestinal tract is required to ensure the bowel is free from faecal matter.