abdomen

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I was staring up at the ceiling in the darkness when Guy Yocom, my roommate, sat up abruptly in his bed and announced: "Abdomen of a hamster," and then fell back down.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 9, 2020

Abdomen: the part of an insect lying behind the thorax.

From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Burkett, Charles William

Abdomen distended, hard, and sensitive, the dilated bladder extending a few fingers’ breadth above the symphysis.

From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Remondino, Peter Charles

The Psoas or Lumbaris is situated inwardly in the Abdomen, on the side of the Vertebra's.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel

And therefore let my Lord Abdomen Say what he will, we'll work for no Man.

From Aesop Dress'd Or a collection of Fables by La Fontaine, Jean de