looseness of the bowels

Questions about looseness of the bowels

What does looseness of the bowels mean?

looseness of the bowels means "frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor".

What is another word for looseness of the bowels?

Close synonyms include diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is looseness of the bowels a common word?

looseness of the bowels is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.