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open your bowels

phrase

B1CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

To pass a stool, the everyday clinical phrasing clinicians use with patients about bowel movements.

When did you last open your bowels, and has your motion changed in colour or consistency?

Similar: have a bowel movement

Topic: Gastroenterology in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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