abdomen

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ab=do=men
• COUNT in NET: 8 in 8 verses (in OT : 8 in 8 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

abdomen, n. [L. abdomen (a word of uncertain etymol.): cf. F. abdomen.].

•  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]
•  The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

abdomen, n.
1 the part of the body containing the stomach, bowels, reproductive organs, etc.
2 Zool. the hinder part of an insect, crustacean, spider, etc.

Derivative

abdominal adj. abdominally adv.

Etymology

L

DEVIL DICTIONARY

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.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

abdomen

Interiority

N interiority, inside, interior, interspace, subsoil, substratum, intrados, contents, substance, pith, marrow, backbone, heart, bosom, breast, abdomen, vitals, viscera, entrails, bowels, belly, intestines, guts, chitterings, womb, lap, penetralia, recesses, innermost recesses, cave, interior, internal, inner, inside, inward, intraregarding, inmost, innermost, deep seated, gut, intestine, intestinal, inland, subcutaneous, abdominal, coeliac, endomorphic, interstitial, inwrought, inclosed, home, domestic, indoor, intramural, vernacular, endemic, internally, inwards, within, in, inly, here in, there in, where in, ab intra, withinside, in doors, within doors, at home, in the bosom of one's family.