(n.) 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.
(n.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.
Example Sentences:
(1) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
(2) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
(3) Chest and biceps circumferences increased 4.2% and 3.1%, respectively; abdomen and thigh circumferences did not significantly change; body fat decreased 16.8%; and body mass increased 2.3%.
(4) Duplex and color Doppler sonography have become indispensable for evaluating the major vessels of the abdomen.
(5) A 33-year old woman was admitted with high fever and excruciating pain in the lower right abdomen that had lasted on and off for months.
(6) In conclusion, a zipper technique has been outlined that allows effective continuing drainage of the septic abdomen, permits early diagnosis of organ damage, is rapid and cost effective, minimizes ventilator dependency and gastrointestinal complications, is well tolerated by the patients, and has produced a modest 65 per cent survival rate in the first 34 critically ill patients in whom it was used.
(7) As for possible causes of reduced Leydig cell activity it was investigated whether the testis was (1) hypoplastic; (2) abnormally fused with the epididymis; (3) located in the abdomen; (4) or UT was associated with hypospadias.
(8) The clinical presentation is that of an acute abdomen.
(9) The rapidity of obtaining the results (within one hour), the complete absence of untoward reactions to the radiopharmaceuticals, the much lower frequency of subtle or indeterminate results, the ability to render useful information in the presence of moderate jaundice and the lack of interference from overlying intestinal contents establishes these radionuclide agents as superior to both radiographic oral and intravenous cholangiography in the investigation of the acute abdomen.
(10) Regarding space occupying lesions in the abdomen angiography is an aid in diagnosis and differential diagnosis and provides information on the curability.
(11) The characteristic signs and symptoms represent the triad of a pulsatile mass in the upper part of the abdomen, intermittent hemorrhage in the upper part of the gastrointestinal tract and severe epigastralgia not relieved by antacids.
(12) There are two sites for transplantation, which are the submamma and the upper lateral region of abdomen.
(13) We analysed the plain abdomen and chest films of 62 patients with this disease.
(14) Contrast media in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the abdomen and pelvis are applied for various purposes; different substances and forms of application must be distinguished.
(15) In all series of experiments multidimensional statistical analysis allowed one to reveal the effect conducive to a relative decrease in the blood content in the brain, myocardium, lungs, liver and to its increase in some abdominal organs, skin, muscle and bone tissues of the extremities, abdomen and pelvis.
(16) The lesion has occurred in many sites, but is commonest in the thorax (60%), abdomen (11%), neck (14%), and axilla (4%).
(17) The remaining patients had vague pains, tender abdomen, constitutional symptoms or a mass in the abdomen.
(18) In 25 patients, small cell lung cancer was staged prospectively with both conventional staging and a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging protocol that included 1.5-T MR imaging of the pelvis, abdomen, spine, and brain.
(19) Laparoscopy with artificial ascites creates a larger space between organs and makes an accurate inspection of the entire intra-peritoneal abdomen possible.
(20) No evidence of lymphomatous involvement of lymph nodes and non-lymphoid organs was found by CT scan, ultrasound echography and gallium scan of the chest and abdomen.
Earwig
Definition:
(n.) Any insect of the genus Forticula and related genera, belonging to the order Euplexoptera.
(n.) In America, any small chilopodous myriapod, esp. of the genus Geophilus.
(n.) A whisperer of insinuations; a secret counselor.
(v. t.) To influence, or attempt to influence, by whispered insinuations or private talk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The house in Turville Heath had acquired a conservatory, for Olivier to pot earwigs in the television version of Voyage.
(2) It is still a common belief that the earwig likes to penetrate into the external auditory canal.
(3) The earwig, Forficula auricularia, has many varying aspects of a health pest (also in the respect of social hygiene).
(4) One of others to become extinct is the St Helena Giant Earwig , the world’s largest known earwig which reaches a length of up to 80mm.
(5) Then I’m going to leave them standing as bird feeders until that time when they are nothing more than stripped-bare, weather-worn stems for earwigs to hunker down in over winter.
(6) There were also significantly fewer day-flying and crawling insects, except earwigs, in homes of children who slept under insecticide-treated bednets compared with those with placebo-treated nets.
(7) I had earwigged at adults’ conversations and I knew this was a great change that was coming about and that most people could hardly believe this was happening.” It had huge public support, though the British Medical Association, the doctors’ union, was still threatening to boycott it until as late as February 1948.
(8) The inner peritrophic envelope of the earwig, Forficula auricularia L., is characterized by an orthogonal texture of bundles of microfibrils that are thought to contain chitin.
(9) The updated list reveals that the world’s biggest earwig – the St Helena Giant Earwig (Labidura herculeana) measuring up to 80mm long compared to the European earwig’s 12-15mm – has become extinct.
(10) The ultrastructure of corpus allatum of the earwig, Euborellia annulipes has been described.
(11) The juvenile hormone analogue (methyl 3.7.11-trimethyl 11-chloro 2-dodecanoate), after administration at various doses on parsectomised female earwigs prevented the degeneration of follicular cells of ovaries and also induced a rapid vitellogenesis followed usually by an oviposition.
(12) What the biologists call the hedgehog's "generalism", its lack of slick speciality, the way it noses for beetles, caterpillars, earwigs and worms, sometimes eating frogs, baby mice, eggs and chicks, its happy existence at the bottom of hedges and in people's back gardens, its inability to cope with very large, chemically denuded arable fields - in other words its fondness for the private, the scruffy and the marginal - all make it a measure of the state of the landscape's health as a whole.
(13) The first member of the phylum to be named (by Dufour in 1828) was Gregarina ovata in earwigs.