5 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Post-abdomen \Post`-ab*do"men\, n. [Pref. post- + abdomen.] (Zool.) That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called {abdomen}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Abdomen \Ab*do"men\, n. [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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Zool.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: abdomen n 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 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, n. 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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