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abdomen
has definitions from the fields of zoology,anatomy
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[ noun ] (zoology) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
Used in print (Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)his quill drawings had a scratchiness , suggesting skin texture ; the clay he used plastically to suggest soft moving flesh , as in an abdomen , in a reclining torso ; the wax he smoothed_over to give the body surface an elastic pull . (E. Lucas Myers, "The Vindication of Dr. Nestor,"...)It was a fine broody_hen , white , with a maternal eye and a striking abundance of feathers in the under region of the abdomen . |
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[ noun ] (anatomy,zoology) the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm
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