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A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.

Cleansing the bowels; promoting evacuations by stool; purgative.

Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels. Milton.

An ailment or disease of the body. One in a complaint of his bowels. Arbuthnot.

A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faces; costiveness.

fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.

An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.

The noise produced bu a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.

or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

To disturb the functions of; to disorder. It disaffects the bowels. Hammond.

To disembowel; to let out or draw forth, as the entrails. [Obs.] As if he thought her soul to disentrail. Spenser.

To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal. In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe. King.

the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.

The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.

To remove; to eject; to void; o discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.

To rip open; todisembowel. [Obs.] Sir. T. Brown.

The act af disemboweling.

To take out the entrails of; to disembowel; to gut.

A disemboweling.