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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
abdomen
noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
low
▪ They are found on the external genitalia and on the thighs, buttocks, and lower abdomen.
▪ His lower abdomen was expanding and contracting in a deep, regular pattern.
▪ This exercise can be done lying flat on the floor, but using a bench stretches the lower abdomen more.
▪ The bullet ripped through her intestinal tract and lodged in her lower abdomen....
▪ Doctors had to perform a colostomy, rerouting the undamaged intestinal tract to a substitute opening in her lower abdomen.
upper
▪ Three days after the last lithotripsy, the plain abdominal x ray showed no calcifications in the right upper abdomen.
▪ After the third treatment, colic in the right upper abdomen stopped and food by mouth was started without problems.
▪ Difficulties arise in patients who are grossly obese and in those who have undergone extensive surgery in the upper abdomen.
▪ Twenty months later, the patient again complained of pain in the right upper abdomen.
▪ The reason for hospital admission was severe colicky pain in the right upper abdomen for two months.
▪ Systematic firm palpation of the costal margin in recommended in all patients presenting with pain in the lower chest or upper abdomen.
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▪ Acting together, the two groups serve as retractors by telescoping the abdomen.
▪ Black widow venom affects the muscles, and may cause severe cramping in the abdomen and other parts of the body.
▪ His lower abdomen was expanding and contracting in a deep, regular pattern.
▪ It performs a special dance, walking in a circle which it then bisects while vigorously waggling its abdomen.
▪ The bullet ripped through her intestinal tract and lodged in her lower abdomen....
▪ The floor scissors exercise is an all-rounder which stretches and tones up the abdomen and the whole of the lower body.
▪ Their abdomen contains two chambers, one on each side.
▪ Then Loi pointed at his abdomen and grimaced with pain to make sure I understood.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
abdomen

Post-abdomen \Post`-ab*do"men\, n. [Pref. post- + abdomen.] (Zo["o]l.) That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called abdomen.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
abdomen

1540s, "belly fat," from Latin abdomen "belly," which is of unknown origin, perhaps from abdere "conceal," with a sense of "concealment of the viscera," or else "what is concealed" by proper dress. De Vaan, however, finds this derivation "unfounded." Purely anatomical sense is from 1610s. Zoological sense of "posterior division of the bodies of arthropods" first recorded 1788.

Wiktionary
abdomen

n. 1 (context obsolete English) The fat surrounding the belly. (Attested from the mid 16th century until the late 17th century.)(R:SOED5: page=3) 2 (context anatomy English) The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis, not including the back; or in some lower vertebrates, the portion between the cardiac and caudal regions. (First attested in the early 17th century.) 3 (context anatomy English) The cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the viscera; often restricted in humans to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity. (First attested in the early 17th century.) 4 (context zoology entomology English) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda. (First attested in the late 18th century.)

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WordNet
abdomen

  1. n: the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis [syn: venter, stomach, belly]

  2. the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm [syn: abdominal cavity]

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Abdomen

The abdomen (less formally called the belly, stomach, tummy or midriff) constitutes the part of the body between the thorax (chest) and pelvis, in humans and in other vertebrates. The region occupied by the abdomen is termed the abdominal cavity. In arthropods it is the posterior tagma of the body; it follows the thorax or cephalothorax. The abdomen stretches from the thorax at the thoracic diaphragm to the pelvis at the pelvic brim. The pelvic brim stretches from the lumbosacral joint (the intervertebral disc between L5 and S1) to the pubic symphysis and is the edge of the pelvic inlet. The space above this inlet and under the thoracic diaphragm is termed the abdominal cavity. The boundary of the abdominal cavity is the abdominal wall in the front and the peritoneal surface at the rear.

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It was not until adult life that from an abscess of the groin was expelled what remained of the spelling-book that had been driven into the abdomen during boyhood.

Con esos brazos vertiginosos de mono y con la cachiporra hizo rodar a tres, pero le metieron dos balas en el abdomen y lo abandonaron por muerto.

She handed Zach the instruments, and he guided one of them into the abdomen, pressing on the vena cava just as it divided into the iliac veins that drained the lower extremities.

I stared at it, seeing the veins in its glassy wings, the dust of yellow pollen that clung to the minuscule hairs of its legs and abdomen, the gentle pulsing of its body as it breathed.

Beth and the utter unresponsiveness of her abdomen to the dhobi pen were stimulations so extreme that Rahul continued to yield to them.

The lymphatics in the wall of the intestine take up some of the digested food from the cells and pass it on through the lymph glands of the abdomen to the lymph duct which empties into a vein near the heart.

The abdomen was distended with tympanites and the rectum much dilated with accumulated feces.

The woman, aged twenty-two, was pale, diminutive in size, and showed an enormous abdomen, which measured 50 inches in circumference at the umbilicus and 27 inches from the ensiform cartilage to the pubes.

The abdomen in its largest circumference measured 68 inches, and 27 inches from the ensiform cartilage to the umbilicus.

When she finally entered the hospital, surgeons had to do a pelvic exenteration on her, which meant they took everything out of the lower abdominal cavity and diverted her urine and fecal waste into bags through artificial holes in the abdomen.

Warm fomentations applied to the abdomen are sometimes very serviceable, and are objectionable only because of their liability to dampen the bed-clothes.

Letting, his momentum take him, keeping his hold on the framea, Atretes rolled and came to his feet, freeing the weapon and bringing the razor sharp spear point into the abdomen of an attacker.

The huge trapper cried out at the delicate probe of the fingers that explored his gashed abdomen.

Tharacus drew his gladius and slammed the flat of it against Atretes, cold steel pressed against his abdomen.

Adrenaline still raced through his body, and he threw off one guard and drove his fist into the abdomen of the other, yanking the gladius from his scabbard as he fell.