bowel

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• I’d been cramped beneath claustrophobic sheets of canvas or assorted high-tech fabrics and snoring recycled air on the shoulders of some mountain or in the bowels of some canyon.

• In the bowels of the stadium, near where the athletes lined up to enter the ceremonies for the scaled down parade of nations, hung a true catch-all sign that captured the essentials that the pandemic has prioritized.

• With each minute that I advanced further into the bowels of Louisiana, the strange feeling grew within me that if we got lost no one would be able to find us.

• His face hit the pavement, and he lost control of his bowels.

• Medics hypothesized that the large intestine was a visceral leftover from the time when our ancestors had to run from predators and often didn’t have time to stop long enough to empty their bowels.

• Anything in your gut sticks to the surface of charcoal like a magnet and gets carried out through a bowel movement.

• Take, for example, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a condition that affects some 15 percent of Americans.

• The tumor in his colon had spread to four of his lymph nodes and penetrated the bowel wall.

• The thing is that autoimmune diseases—like diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, and rheumatoid arthritis—are on the rise.

• But new research shows it is indeed real, and may be the cause of asthma, irritable bowel syndrome, arthritis, and more.

• Yellowish or brown, needle-like or rhombic crystals of hematoidin (Fig. 32) may be seen after hemorrhage into the bowel.