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stomach

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The stomach is a muscular, hollow, dilated part of the gastrointestinal tract that functions as an important organ in the digestive system . The stomach is present in many animals including vertebrates , echinoderms , insects (mid-gut), and molluscs . In ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion. 2 (context informal English) The belly. 3 (context obsolete English) pride, haughtiness. 4 (context obsolete English) appetite. 5 (context figuratively English) desire, appetite (for ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stomach \Stom"ach\, v. i. To be angry. [Obs.] --Hooker.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a knee/heart/stomach etc operation ▪ He is almost back to full fitness after a knee operation. a stomach bug ( also a tummy bug more informal ) ▪ He’s off school with a stomach bug. arm/leg/stomach etc muscles ▪ Her ...

Usage examples of stomach.

In a word, the accumulation of feces in the colon irritates both the large and small intestines, thus causing congestion of the bowels, liver, or stomach.

Glen, his stomach churning, his groin tingling, managed to follow only a few steps before he realized the acrophobia was going to win.

The explanation of these exhibitions is as follows: The instrument enters the mouth and pharynx, then the esophagus, traverses the cardiac end of the stomach, and enters the latter as far as the antrum of the pylorus, the small culdesac of the stomach.

Demmet administered a small amount of curare to relax the stomach muscles, making the appendectomy that much easier for the surgeon to perform.

They went to their regular meals in the English ship, and pretty soon they were nibbling again--nibbling, appetiteless, disgusted with the food, moody, miserable, half hungry, their outraged stomachs cursing and swearing and whining and supplicating all day long.

The frequent vomiting made it impossible to administer remedies by the stomach, and, in spite of hypodermic injections and external application of analeptics, the boy died fifty hours after operation.

And now the analgesia was leaving, and pain was beginning to come into his hands, his chest, his stomach and his legs.

Sapphire tried to dash out the parlor archway, but Magiere kicked her in the stomach.

But when he managed to choke one of the dry things down, it calmed his complaining stomach so nicely that the bardling sighed with relief and actually slipped back into sleep.

The guard took his trident from the flier and backed away, spreading his arms out away from his body, baring his vulnerable stomach and throat to attack.

Harry Norman, the heir to a baronetcy, was too much for him to stomach.

On examination, it had proved that Wilhelmina Spencer-Brown had died of heart failure, owing to a massive dose of belladonna, which, since she had not eaten since a light breakfast, appeared to have been consumed in some ginger-flavored tonic cordial, the only substance in the stomach at the time of death.

He stuffed his cap down the back of his trousers -- ragged brown beltless things, his only other article of dress -- and linked his hands together over a stomach like a basketball.

The berries afford a yellow aromatic oil, which acts on the kidneys, and gives cordial warmth to the stomach.

Faculty Building, Bruno snored, stretched, and kicked Boots in the stomach.