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abdomen

noun as in the stomach and area directly below in an animate being

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Some decapods, like lobsters and shrimp, have a thick cylindrical abdomen with a muscular tail for snapping backwards at high speed and burrowing on the seabed.

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The independent report described how he had become agitated following a family visit and had stabbed himself in his abdomen with a pair of scissors.

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In 2019, this concluded that Ms Wanjiru had been unlawfully killed by one or two British soldiers and that she had suffered stab wounds to the chest and abdomen.

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He’d fled to Tijuana, where he underwent surgery for a gunshot wound to his abdomen, according to the informant.

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Amiryan, who flung himself over his partner, was shot in the abdomen and arm.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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