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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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