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US
/ˈæbdəmən, æbˈdoʊmən/
]
[ UK /ˈæbdəmən/ ]
[ UK /ˈæbdəmən/ ]
NOUN
- the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
- the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm
How To Use abdomen In A Sentence
- Sometimes, they can detect the plastic implanted in my abdomen to repair a hernia from a prior surgery, but other times the miss the plastic. Discourse.net: Former Asst Police Chief Gives TSA a Failing Grade
- All specimens are exuviae, with thin and fragile carapaces and abdomens and fragmentary bodies and appendages.
- Thin axial slices through the abdomen are obtained in supine and prone positions.
- At the end of the abdomen is the telson, which bears a bulb-shaped structure containing the venom glands and a sharp, curved aculeus to deliver the venom.
- My plan was to remove single cells from defined regions of the blastoderm and culture them in adult abdomens surrounded by genetically marked "feeder cells. Eric F. Wieschaus - Autobiography
- The long rear part is the opisthosoma, which can be further divided into a broad flattened pre-abdomen consisting of seven segments, and a narrower and more cylindrical post-abdomen of only five segments.
- Six years ago she began to get tired and put weight on around her abdomen.
- The reason for hospital admission was severe colicky pain in the right upper abdomen for two months.
- Women wear the patch on their abdomen, where it gradually releases a dose of testosterone into the body through the skin.
- Poor Sundry Buyers continually pressed his abdomen as he toiled around the deck-capstans; and never was Nancy's face quite so forlorn as when he obeyed the Maltese Cockney's command and went up to loose the mizzen-skysail. CHAPTER L