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means The intestine, especially as the part of the body associated with digestion and, euphemistically, with elimination.
from From Old French 'boel,' from Latin 'botellus,' meaning 'little sausage' — originally a term for a small intestine-shaped sausage, extended to the intestines themselves. So the word for your innards is, at root, a diminutive sausage joke.
- length
- about 25 feet, coiled like a garden hose
- etymology
- from latin botellus, meaning little sausage
- neurons
- contains its own nervous system, the enteric brain
- movements
- waves called peristalsis push everything along regardless of plans