bowel movement

bowel movement

English

Noun

bowel movement (plural bowel movements)

1. The discharge of feces from the body, an act of defecation.
   • 2022 October 2, Cara Schacter, “My Year of Stress and Constipation”, in The New York Times‎:

     Mid-March 2021, at a bowling alley, I watch balls thunder down lanes and wonder if I’ve had a bowel movement since Presidents’ Day.

2. The feces thus produced.

Usage notes

• A nonvulgar, relatively inoffensive term for this bodily function, acceptable for general use.

Synonyms

• BM
• See Thesaurus:defecation

Related terms

• move one's bowels

Translations

discharge of feces

Catalan: defecació f Chinese: Mandarin: 排便 (zh) (páibiàn) French: défécation (fr) f Finnish: ulostaminen (fi) Italian: defecazione (it) f German: Stuhlgang (de) m Portuguese: movimento intestinal m, evacuação (pt) f, defecação (pt) f Spanish: defecación (es) f

feces thus produced

Catalan: deposició f Chinese: Mandarin: 糞便 (zh), 粪便 (zh) (fènbiàn) French: fèces (fr) f pl Finnish: uloste (fi) Italian: feci (it) f pl Portuguese: fezes (pt) f pl Spanish: heces (es) f pl