(n.) That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.
(n.) The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly.
(n.) The womb.
(n.) The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship.
(n.) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
(v. t.) To cause to swell out; to fill.
(v. i.) To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of the mutation for white belly spot controlled by the dominant gene W on spermatogenesis in mice was examined by experimental cryptorchidism and its surgical reversal.
(2) A case of "Prune Belly" syndrome, its sonographic diagnosis, from the 15th week and its monitoring by sonography and biochemical exams of fetal urine for study of renal function is described.
(3) Best friends since school, they sound like an old married couple, finishing each other's sentences, constantly referring to the other by name and making each other laugh; deep sonorous, belly laughs.
(4) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
(5) With an incidence of between 1 in 30,000 and 1 in 50,000 births, prune-belly syndrome (PBS) is a rare malformation syndrome.
(6) She walked around her Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in a crop top that showed her belly button ring; she also established herself as a hard- working MP for that area.
(7) and Isospora belli because they can be responsible for severe chronic enteritis in immunodeficient patients.
(8) We report the clinical findings, diagnostic problems and treatment of a 1-year-old Coloured child (with classic 'prune belly syndrome') in whom the spleen had undergone torsion, thus simulating an intra-abdominal abscess.
(9) She mentions the show at the Baltic in Gateshead in 2007, when one of her photographs, Klara and Edda Belly-dancing , owned by Elton John, was removed from the exhibition on the grounds that it was pornographic .
(10) She [McSally] has got a lot more fire in her belly than Ron does.” Latino community Some 100 miles north, on the outskirts of Tucson, Barber’s middle-of-the road positioning is beginning to alienate an arguably even more crucial voting block.
(11) Treating the catheters with an organo-silane preparation, protecting the catheters against dislodgement, and use of a belly bandage to minimize damage to the external parts of the catheter may have prolonged catheter life in this experiment.
(12) Isospora belli infection is the most frequent coccidiosis after cryptosporidiosis in AIDS patients.
(13) The main features of the operation include identification of the facial nerve in all cases, division of the posterior belly of the digastric muscle and styloid apparatus, and excision of the styloid process.
(14) The posterior bellies of the digastric muscles were normal.
(15) By analogy with the comparable glands of the yellow-bellied toad and the grass frog, these are called the toxic, lumpy, mucous, callous, and small glands.
(16) The five-year project will see farmers in the eastern region implement measures to try to encourage the reproduction of the Great Hamster of Alsace, which can grow to 25cm (10in) long, has a brown and white face, a black belly, white paws and little round ears.
(17) Pregnant Muslim women had their bellies slit open with knives, and the foetuses pulled out.
(18) Along with Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, he brought the music of the dirt farms, the sweat shops and the lonesome highways into America's – and later the world's – living room.
(19) The tail butt, esutcheon, belly, dewlap and to a lesser degree neck and ear were all very suitable sites on which to find cattle ticks.
(20) The activity of the left masseter, left temporalis, and both bellies of the anterior digastric muscle was studied by this double registration technique.
Bulge
Definition:
(n.) The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
(n.) A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.
(n.) The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.
(v. i.) To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges.
(v. i.) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Where the PGCs bulge out into the coelomic cavity, they stretch the somatic cell covering to a thin, cytoplasmic layer.
(2) On admission she was found to be a well-nourished infant with a head circumference of 56 cm, bulging anterior fontanelle and mental retardation.
(3) An unusual appearance of echoes behind the aorta bulging into the left atrium in diastole on both the M-mode and cross-sectional echo suggested this diagnosis prior to cardiac catheterization.
(4) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
(5) Bulge formation, due to the presumed action of an autolysin(s), may be an initial step in the septation sequence when the mucopeptide is modified to allow construction of the septum.
(6) Regional myocardial wall function was improved in the central and peripheral ischemic region as demonstrated by a significantly reduced systolic bulging.
(7) Some birds were subjected to unilateral eyelid-suture, a protocol which usually induces axial lengthening and corneal bulging.
(8) I look out at this brilliant audience here today, bulging with ideas, and I ask you possibly to solve it.
(9) The chief characteristics of stage 18 (approximately 44 postovulatory days) are rapidly growing basal nuclei; appearance of the extraventricular bulge of the cerebellum (flocculus), of the superior cerebellar peduncle, and of follicles in the epiphysis cerebri; and the presence of vomeronasal organ and ganglion, of the bucconasal membrane, and of isolated semicircular ducts.
(10) In 10 dogs with acute posterior wall ischemia the B-C excursion (aneurysmal bulging) increased (P less than 0.01), but the mean systolic posterior wall velocity and posterior wall excursion decreased (P less than 0.01).
(11) If there is no evidence of a canine bulge, and the tooth appears to be tipped medially in the frontal radiograph, with the crown medial to the lateral border of the nasal cavity, a future impaction of the maxillary canine is a significant possibility.
(12) In a 50-year-old patient with complex ventricular arrhythmia (monotopic ventricular extrasystoles in bigeminy and triplet form), coronary angiography with ventriculography revealed an aneurysm of about 2-3 cm diameter that bulged visibly into the right ventricle during the systole.
(13) Fabregas hammers it down the middle, the ball sailing slightly to the left before bulging the net.
(14) Intravenous ISO injection now induced regional dysfunction in the LCX-dependent segment with the occurrence of systolic bulging.
(15) The results indicate that tat interacts with both the bulge and loop regions of TAR.
(16) A 51-year-old female patient, admitted with a chief complaint of dizziness, had bulging of the occipital area, which had started insidiously.
(17) The original "root area" widens with the broadening of the back and can still be demonstrated as an homogeneous "root area" of the "intestinal bulge", after the typical adult situs has developed.
(18) Five of the hairpins have single-base bulges at different positions.
(19) They topped a list of eight "triggers" that could rupture aneurysms – bulges in the walls of blood vessels – in the brain.
(20) Removal of d-alanine from a growing population of cells resulted in cell bulging 25% of the cell length from one cell pole, followed by cell lysis.