abdomen

Example Sentences

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Visceral fat refers to the fat stored deep in the abdomen around key internal organs.

From Science Daily

On publication day, her mother called to tell her that doctors had found a mass in her abdomen — a cancer that would metastasize.

From New York Times

While sitting in his wheelchair, he was shot three times in the abdomen, police said, and died nearly a year later of complications related to those injuries.

From Washington Post

One of the bullets that hit his thigh fractured his hipbone and then broke partially apart before exiting through his abdomen.

From Washington Post

Take for example Ophrys sphegodes, the early spider orchid, which has flowers resembling a spider's abdomen, but also reproduces the sex pheromones of certain mining bees.

From Salon