(n.) One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.
(n.) Hence, figuratively: The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth.
(n.) The seat of pity or kindness. Hence: Tenderness; compassion.
(n.) Offspring.
(v. t.) To take out the bowels of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
Example Sentences:
(1) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
(2) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
(3) The only localized tumors known to produce elevation of CEA above the levels observed in non malignant diseases are carcinomas of the large bowel and the pancreas.
(4) This is a report concerning a unique combination of Alzheimer's disease with the following refluxes: buccosalivary, gastroesophageal, vesicoureteral, urethroprostatic and urethrovesicular, along with neurogenic bowel and neuropathic bladder.
(5) Metastatic tumors of the small bowel from extra-abdominal sites are rare.
(6) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
(7) Patients with inflammatory bowel disease showed decreased tissue-type plasminogen activator antigen release (t-PA Ag), no significant Von Willebrand antigen release (vWF Ag), and a residual plasminogen activator inhibitor activity (PAI activity) after venous occlusion.
(8) Regression of the tumor occurred during an episode of mechanical small bowel obstruction.
(9) After large bowel removal, there was impaired glucose tolerance and attenuated plasma insulin secretion.
(10) A certain amount of relaparotomies after small bowel surgery is caused by technical failures, such as the technique of suturing the anastomosis and the kind of re-establishing the continuity of the bowel.
(11) The affected bowel was replaced through the laceration, and the vaginal defects were sutured with the mares standing, utilizing epidural anesthesia.
(12) Failues of PAFD occurred primarily with the presence of phlegmonous collections and cavities with fistulous connection to bowel.
(13) symptoms, bowel habits, normal physical examination, absence of intestinal infections or parasites) b) physiopathological evaluation (hyperactivity of the distal colon, hypersensitivity to stimuli, stress), and c) physiological evaluation of the patient.
(14) A case is presented with radiographically demonstrated angioedema in the stomach and small bowel accompanied by allergic rhinitis, which was apparently an allergic response to the barium sulfate suspension.
(15) To investigate whether counting cells containing immunoglobulin (Ig) subclass in colonic biopsy specimens of patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease, in addition to conventional histological evaluation, can improve the differentiation of patients with Crohn's disease from those with ulcerative colitis.
(16) Alternatively, structural changes in these molecules, rather than an increase in their number or the expression of other surface glycoproteins, may be more important in mediating adhesive interactions in inflammatory bowel disease.
(17) In addition, fibrin thrombi were noted in a wide variety of specific and nonspecific inflammatory bowel diseases and in acute appendicitis.
(18) This hypothesis is consistent with recent findings of elastosis of the bowel wall muscles, the distribution of diverticula along the colon, as well as with epidemiological data on the emergence of diverticulosis coli as a medical problem and its geographic prevalence.
(19) Doppler ultrasound was used to determine the viability of ischemic small intestine and to select the optimum point for resection of nonviable bowel.
(20) This postoperative surveillance was aimed at discovering benign or malignant neoplastic growth within the remaining large bowel.
Pity
Definition:
(n.) Piety.
(n.) A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
(n.) A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
(v. t.) To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering.
(v. t.) To move to pity; -- used impersonally.
(v. i.) To be compassionate; to show pity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
(2) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(3) "); hopeless self-pity ("Nobody said anything to me about Billy ... all day long") and rage ("You want to put a bench in the park in Billy's name?
(4) Indeed, mainstream economics is a pitifully thin distillation of historical wisdom on the topics that it addresses.
(5) Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?” It is there to remind him that the dots are worth fighting for.
(6) Last year, Amnesty International described the world’s response as “pitiful” and earlier this week, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants called on the EU to deliver a proper resettlement programme.
(7) April's family had to endure the "spectacle of your hypocritical sympathy for their loss and of your tears", the judge told Bridger, saying any tears were motivated purely by self-pity.
(8) And this is the mainspring of so many of his stories, novellas, and his one novel, Beware of Pity : the clash between propriety and desire.
(9) It’s actually a pity that there’s now a break because I wanted to continue playing games,” said the Italian.
(10) In his final fight, against the journeyman boxer Kevin McBride, he was a pitiful figure - slumped in a corner, legs splayed, unable or unwilling to stand himself up.
(11) Other negative emotions – self-pity, guilt, apathy, pessimism, narcissism – make it a deeply unattractive illness to be around, one that requires unusual levels of understanding and tolerance from family and friends.
(12) He said it was a “pity” that the UK prime minister “wasn’t able to express the British position at the press conference with Donald Trump standing next to her”.
(13) As the turbulent commercial radio sector enters another new phase, Park wants to sweep away the thinking that has left too many of his colleagues wallowing in self-pity, and turn his fire on a familiar target.
(14) Broadly defined, this sort of behaviour involves procrastination, stubbornness, resentment, sullenness, obstructionism, self-pity and a tendency to create chaotic situations.
(15) It is a pity we did not take our chances,” the Ukraine coach, Mykhailo Fomenko, said.
(16) "This depressing morning has now got me questioning my pitiful existence," sobs James Dodge.
(17) Foreign dignitaries were invited to attend for the first time and it is a pity that from Europe only Javier Solana chose to take the offer up.
(18) Men convicted of rape are often pitied in the media and, like Evans, quickly vault back to positions of fame .
(19) But after the strange denials that this old, sick man is dying I want to talk not with pity but of his power.
(20) Staff here dread the welfare reform bill, waiting for debts, arrears, evictions and pitiful hardship to wash up on their doorstep.