abdomen
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈæbdəˌmɛn/
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abdomen
- Children with an acute abdomen should have a blood glucose level check.
- lower abdomen
- chest and abdomen
- back and abdomen
They're higher up than the abdomen, right?
- They're higher up than the abdomen, right?
- And it basically stops my abdomen from exploding and ripping apart.
- And because it's my lower abdomen pain, they're asking me questions about like, gas.
- Feel the muscles in your chest, in your abdomen, firing, tensing as you're pulling yourself up.
- She has these vague feelings of heaviness in the abdomen.
- We can also add segments, distinct segments for the abdomen.
- And these adhesions are cobwebs of scar tissue that line the abdomen.
- I felt like my entire chest from like my throat to my like abdomen was filled with just unwanted air.
- The pressure starts to build, your abdomen balloons out, and you become increasingly uncomfortable.
- It may move into the abdomen, so you become aware of an energy field down here, and so the abdomen falls and rises.
- So as well as having a weak core from surgery, I also have a weak abdomen because of the stoma itself.
Examples
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I have a lump on my abdomen.
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Cramping pain in the lower abdomen may radiate to the thighs and lower back.
Academic text (2012) -
Caught lower in the abdomen.
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You can actually see the how the abdomen is just very, very fragile.
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Then the pressure in his abdomen grew until he was sure it would burst.
Fiction book (1995) -
Our treatment is to go into the abdomen, take out the appendix, right?
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The pressure starts to build, your abdomen balloons out, and you become increasingly uncomfortable.
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Exercises need to target the muscles of your abdomen, shoulders, and legs.
Academic text (2015) -
I felt this sort of sudden pain in my abdomen, and it was my, the aneurysm I didn't know I had.
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After eating too much at dinner, I felt a sharp pain in my abdomen.
Synonyms
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1.0
Part of the body between the chest and hips, or the underside of an animal
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1.0
The area of the body between the chest and the hips, the belly
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4.0
The stomach or belly, often the round front part of the body where food goes after you eat
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3.4
The main part of the body not including the head, neck, arms, or legs
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4.1
The middle part of the body between the chest and the waist
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9.9
The lower side of an animal, plant, or body part
Compounds
- Specialized
A flat muscle that runs across the front and side of the abdomen and helps keep the body stable
How High
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word abdomen comes from a Latin word abdomen that meant 'belly' and is linked to a root meaning 'to hide'. So the abdomen is the part of the body between the chest and the pelvis that 'hides' the stomach and other inner organs.