(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.
Paunch
Definition:
(n.) The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.
(n.) A paunch mat; -- called also panch.
(n.) The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
(v. t.) To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.
(v. t.) To stuff with food.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cuplike indentations were present on the paunch epithelial surface and were sites of bacterial aggregation.
(2) Thirteen bacterial morphotypes in the paunch were described in detail: seven were observed only in R. flavipes, three were observed only in C. formosanus, and three were common to both termite species.
(3) Only one case was recorded in the long-tailed mouse (Oligoryzomys flavescens), and none in the white paunch mouse (Calomys laucha), both species sympatric with A.
(4) Recent episodes have expanded on the fruit-stall-as-metaphor-for-emotional-rejuvenation theme, with shots of the ex-chippy magnate sighing at customers, his paunch peering tentatively over his post-traumatic bumbag in a fashion that suggested normality – if not, perhaps, dignity – was imminent.
(5) In addition to the paunch, the midgut was also colonized by bacteria that were situated between epithelial microvilli.
(6) He was a talented sportsman before he lost the sight in his left eye in a rugby match, and still moves around with astonishing speed, despite an expanding paunch pushing at the buttons of his thick cotton shirt.
(7) The paunch epithelium was densely colonized by bacteria, many of which possessed holdfast elements that secured them tightly to this tissue and to other bacterial cells.
(8) The relative concentration (per mg total protein) was found to be in the order: Pancreas greater than liver greater than lymph node greater than testes, fat tissue greater than parotid gland, brain, spleen, lung greater than small intestine, spinal cord, large intestine, kidney greater than paunch, aorta greater than skeletal muscle greater than heart.
(9) Body measurements (heart and paunch girths, wither height, chest depth, pelvic length and width, and body length), body weight, and calving evaluation data (calf birth weight, calf sex, calf presentation, and calving assistance needed) were collected from 1974 parities of 762 Holstein cows between 1968 and 1986.
(10) The termite paunch microbiota consisted of an abundance of morphologically diverse bacteria and protozoa.
(11) Besides bacteria, the protozoan Pyrsonympha vertens adhered to the paunch epithelium of R. flavipes by means of an attachment organelle.
(12) But I hate that when I get up in the morning about a second later my paunch follows.
(13) Adipose tissue was found in all the typical mammalian depots and in the superficial abdominal paunch, which enlarged disproportionately in obese specimens, forming an almost continuous layer over most of the body.
(14) Phenotypic correlations of dam body traits with calf birth weight were all significantly positive when combined for all parities and ranged from .23 for paunch girth to .27 for body weight and heart girth.
(15) Adipocytes in the paunch depot showed biochemical properties in common with those in the groin depots.
(16) When he ended his career in 1999, aged 42, his hair was greying, he developed a paunch and he was often mocked for his feminine voice and questioned over whether he was gay.
(17) Amid the sea of balding scalps and protruding paunches, Flint, the 47-year-old minister for Europe, stands out like an exotically plumed peacock in a farm full of battery hens.