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What is the difference between the bowel and the large intestine?

What is the difference between the bowel and the large intestine?

I was reading some medical stuff, by patients, and some refer to both in the same sentence. I thought they were the same thing.
  

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[nq:1]What is the difference between the bowel and the large intestine? I was reading some medical stuff, by patients, and some refer to both in the same sentence. [/nq] The bowel is made up of both the small and the large intestine.

  • [nq:1]What is the difference between the bowel and the large intestine?
  • I was reading some medical stuff, by patients, and some refer to both in the same sentence.
  • [/nq] The bowel is made up of both the small and the large intestine.
  • HTH, With best wishes, Peter.
  • Peter, \ / \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos.
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[nq:1]What is the difference between the bowel and the large intestine? I was reading some medical stuff, by patients, and some refer to both in the same sentence. I thought they were the same thing.[/nq]
The bowel is made up of both the small and the large intestine.

HTH,
With best wishes,
Peter.

Peter, \ / \ Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52 Anne \ / \ England. and
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[nq:2]What is the difference between the bowel and the large ... the same sentence. I thought they were the same thing.[/nq]
[nq:1]The bowel is made up of both the small and the large intestine. HTH,[/nq]
Yes. Now I have to go back and read those things again. I think at least one didn't make sense and that helped to confuse me.

Thanks.
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[nq:2]The bowel is made up of both the small and the large intestine. HTH,[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes. Now I have to go back and read those things again. I think at least one didn't make sense and that helped to confuse me.[/nq]
In colloquial terminology, your guts are your bowels (note the plural).

When I am reading technical stuff that needs to differentiate, the small and large intestines
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[nq:1]I would like Dr Peter Young to explain the sigmoid part. Is just that the S-twist where the colon turns ... and descending section. (Anyway, it acts like a kink in a garden hose, and seems to slow down the movements!)[/nq]
Yes, it's just the twisty bit (sigma is the Greek letter "S"), the continuation of the descending colon, and not really different in function from it. If it
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[nq:2]I would like Dr Peter Young to explain the sigmoid ... a garden hose, and seems to slow down the movements!)[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes, it's just the twisty bit (sigma is the Greek letter "S"), the continuation of the descending colon, and not really different in function from it. If it slows things down for you, then you need more vegetable or fruit, I think![/nq]
I wonde
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[nq:1]What is the difference between the bowel and the large intestine? I was reading some medical stuff, by patients, and some refer to both in the same sentence. =A0I thought they were the same thing.[/nq]
Underlying this matter is the "Parallel Vocabulary of Medicine" (my own description)
Only trained medical personnel are supposed to use the precise medical term because only they know
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[nq:1]What is the difference between the bowel and the large intestine? I was reading some medical stuff, by patients, and some refer to both in the same sentence. I thought they were the same thing.[/nq]
The large intestine is the large bowel.
"The Bowels" includes the small intestine - the dudenum, jejunum and ileum. The large bowel / intestine includes the colon and ******.

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[nq:2]I would like Dr Peter Young to explain the sigmoid ... a garden hose, and seems to slow down the movements!)[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes, it's just the twisty bit (sigma is the Greek letter "S"), the continuation of the descending colon, and not really different in function from it. If it slows things down for you, then you need more vegetable or fruit, I think![/nq]
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[nq:2](snip) Yes, it's just the twisty bit (sigma is the ... you, then you need more vegetable or fruit, I think![/nq]
[nq:1]I wonder if maybe that is what they meant by bowel, that part. Two of them wrote, about themselves, diifferent ... and to ask in the list, for more than one reason, I doubt if those two people are reading now.[/nq]
Have you looked at Usenet newsgroups? I can't see an
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[nq:1]I, fortunately, have little problem in that area. But I had a barium ***** once, and you might not believe ... through the sigmoid. And then they did a colonoscopy and stuck a hose up through. No pain,[/nq]
I need one of those too. No pain at the time, ok, but was there any pain the next day. PLEASE ANSWER as soon as possible, anyone, because there's a chance I could schedule it for tomo

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