 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
abdomen
noun
1: 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}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Post-abdomen \Post'-ab*do"men\, noun [Pref. post- + abdomen.]
(Zo["o]l.)
That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more
commonly called {abdomen}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Abdomen \Ab*do"men\, noun [L. abdomen (a word of uncertain
etymol.): cf. F. abdomen.]
1. (Anat.) The belly, or that part of the body between the
thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly,
which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the
stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often
restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the
commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the
pelvic cavity.
2. (Zo["o]l.) The posterior section of the body, behind the
thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "abdomen":
abomasum, anus, appendix, bay window, beerbelly, belly, blind gut,
bowels, brain, breadbasket, cecum, colon, corporation, craw, crop,
diaphragm, duodenum, embonpoint, endocardium, entrails,
first stomach, foregut, giblets, gizzard, gullet, gut, guts, heart,
hindgut, honeycomb stomach, innards, inner mechanism, insides,
internals, intestine, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kishkes,
large intestine, liver, liver and lights, lung, manyplies, maw,
middle, midgut, midriff, midsection, omasum, paunch, perineum, pod,
pot, potbelly, potgut, psalterium, pump, pusgut, pylorus, rectum,
rennet bag, reticulum, rumen, second stomach, small intestine,
spare tire, spleen, stomach, swagbelly, third stomach, ticker,
tripes, tum-tum, tummy, underbelly, venter, ventripotence,
vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, works
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ABDOMEN, noun The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with
sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient
faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at
the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence
for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a
free hand in the world's marketing the race would become
graminivorous.
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