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Bowe Becker
Bowe Becker (Bowen Becker), American swimmer born 1997 in Chicago; 2020 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist in the men's 4x100 m freestyle relay for Team USA; former Minnesota Gopher, Cali Condors ISL swimmer.
Bowe Bergdahl
Bowe Bergdahl (Robert B. Bergdahl), U.S. Army sergeant who left his Afghanistan post in June 2009, was held nearly five years by the Haqqani network, released in a May 2014 Guantanamo prisoner exchange, and convicted of desertion in 2017.
Bowel cleansing
Bowel cleansing, also called bowel preparation, clears the intestines of fecal matter with laxative solutions, dietary restriction, and fluids, most often before colonoscopy, since inadequate cleansing causes most incomplete examinations.
Bowel obstruction
Bowel obstruction, also called intestinal obstruction, is a mechanical blockage of intestinal contents, usually from adhesions, hernias, or tumors; strangulation threatens bowel viability, and treatment combines resuscitation, decompression, and selective surgery.
Bowel preparation
Bowel preparation is the clinical process of clearing fecal material from the colon with laxatives, diet, and fluids before a colonoscopy, so the lining can be inspected reliably.
Bowel resection
Bowel resection is surgery that removes a diseased segment of the small intestine, colon, or rectum and rejoins the ends, done for cancer, Crohn's disease, obstruction, or trauma.
Bowel transplantation
Bowel (intestinal) transplantation is surgery that replaces a patient's small intestine with a donor graft to treat intestinal failure when parenteral nutrition is no longer safe long term.
Bowen Basin
The Bowen Basin is a Permian sedimentary basin in central Queensland, Australia, containing the country's principal black coal deposits and forming the world's largest metallurgical coal export province.
Bowen Byram
Bowen Byram, Canadian NHL defenseman; drafted fourth overall by Colorado in 2019, won the 2022 Stanley Cup, traded to Buffalo in 2024, then to Chicago, signing a six-year $75 million deal in 2026.
Bowen ratio
The Bowen ratio is the ratio of sensible heat flux to latent heat flux from a surface, named for Ira S. Bowen, who derived it in 1926.
Bowen Yang
Bowen Yang (born 1990) is an Australian-born American comedian, actor, writer, and Las Culturistas podcaster; first Chinese American SNL cast member, five-time Emmy nominee, star of Fire Island, Wicked, and Oh, Mary!
Bowen-Conradi syndrome
Bowen-Conradi syndrome (Bowen Hutterite syndrome, BWCNS) is a lethal autosomal recessive ribosomopathy caused by an EMG1 D86G mutation, common in Hutterites (1/355 births), with microcephaly, contractures, and death in infancy.
Bowenia
Bowenia is a Queensland-endemic cycad genus in Zamiaceae with two species, B. spectabilis and B. serrulata, unique among living cycads for bipinnate leaves and weevil pollination.
Bower
Bower names several unrelated venues: Bower Center for the Arts (Bedford, VA, opened 2006), Fairgrounds Bower Place pickleball club, Right Bower café, The Bower (Edmonton), and Bloom & Bower wedding venue (Ohio).
Bower (crater on Pluto)
Bower is a 72-km-wide impact crater on Pluto at 45.36°N, 233.39°E, IAU-approved 11 Sep 2024 and named for Ernest Clare Bower, who computed one of the first independent orbits of Pluto after its 1930 discovery.
Bowerbird
Bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae), New Guinea and Australia birds whose males build decorated twig bowers to court females in polygynous, non-resource-based leks; catbirds are the monogamous exception, and satin bowerbird mating skews toward decorated bowers.
Bowers & Wilkins
Bowers & Wilkins (B&W) is a British loudspeaker and headphone manufacturer founded in 1966 in Worthing, England, whose 800 Series Diamond speakers are used at Abbey Road Studios.
Bowers Ridge
Bowers Ridge, Bering Sea: a roughly 700 km arcuate aseismic submarine ridge extending from the Aleutian Ridge, separating the Aleutian and Bowers Basins; an Oligocene-Early Miocene (26-32 Ma) volcanic island arc with a filled fossil trench.
Bowers v. Hardwick
Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986), the Supreme Court case upholding Georgia's sodomy statute against a due process challenge by Michael Hardwick; overruled by Lawrence v. Texas in 2003.
Bowery
The Bowery is a 1.5-mile Manhattan street and neighborhood, New York City's oldest thoroughfare, a Lenape trail turned Dutch farm road (Bouwerij), later an entertainment district, Skid Row, and gentrifying area.
Bowes Moor
Bowes Moor, County Durham: Pennine moorland on the Stainmore Pass with a Roman temporary camp (56 m across, dated 340-350 AD), an adjacent signal station, the Rey Cross marching camp, a Roman aqueduct, and the fort of Lavatrae.
Bowes Museum
The Bowes Museum, founded by Joséphine and John Bowes in Barnard Castle, County Durham, opened in 1892; a French château-style Grade I listed museum holding over 58,000 objects including the Silver Swan automaton and works by Goya and Canaletto.
Bowfin
Bowfin (Amia calva), with eyetail bowfin Amia ocellicauda, the last living amiiform fish, a North American freshwater air-breather in Holostei with gars; long called a living fossil, split into two species in 2022.
Bowfinger
Bowfinger is a 1999 American comedy directed by Frank Oz, written by and starring Steve Martin with Eddie Murphy in dual roles, about a broke producer secretly filming star Kit Ramsey; released August 13, 1999 by Universal.
Bowhead whale
Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus, Greenland right whale): an Arctic baleen whale living over 200 years, with blubber up to 1.6 feet thick; nearly wiped out by commercial whaling, now Least Concern globally with over 25,000 whales.
Bowie knife
The Bowie knife is a large American fixed-blade knife with a clip point and crossguard, named for James Bowie and made famous by the Sandbar fight of 1827.
Bowing
Bowing (ojigi, お辞儀) is a noncontact greeting gesture of inclining the head or bending the trunk, standard in Japan with graded angles (eshaku 15°, keirei 45°, saikeirei ~90°), used for greeting, thanks, and apology, with roots in Chinese ritual and distinct East Asian variants like namaste and wai.
Bowing in Japan
Bowing in Japan (ojigi, お辞儀) is the standard Japanese greeting, thanks, and apology gesture, replacing the handshake. Key forms are eshaku (15°), keirei (30°), and saikeirei (45°); it came from China, was formalized in samurai etiquette, and raises perceived attractiveness most strongly for Japanese observers.
Bowkylion (โบกี้ไลอ้อน)
Bowkylion (โบกี้ไลอ้อน), born 1994, is a Thai singer-songwriter under What The Duck, famous from The Voice Thailand Season 4 and hits like วาดไว้ (Recall) and ลงใจ; album Lionheart (2020), later a Voice coach.
Bowl and doily spider
Bowl and doily spider (Frontinella pyramitela, formerly Linyphia communis), a small North American sheetweb spider (Linyphiidae) with a bowl-over-doily web; studied for first-male sperm priority, virginity-signaling courtship, and game-theoretic male combat.