(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.
Tummy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) You aren't worried about the cellulite on your thighs or your tummy not being flat.
(2) Once you have met someone who gives you tummy flips you certainly don't want to go back to a world without them.
(3) His little tummy just heaved and heaved until he stopped.
(4) She has a flat tummy and slender arms and her eyes seem to be wider than her ankles.
(5) We used to associate wealth with a big tummy and had the idea that if you were skinny you were not doing well,” he told me.
(6) But for whatever reason (I like to think it's because the last feast gave Her Majesty a gippy tummy and Prince Philip refuses to spend another night holding her hair back) this isn't the case.
(7) And so I've been patting a tummy I didn't have a few weeks ago, and wondering what to do about it.
(8) But at the moment, unless he says something to the contrary, he does look as if he is curled up right there, being gently stroked on the PM's tummy.
(9) We refused to eat the bulgur though, because it gives you a runny tummy; and if you have a runny tummy and are in an isolation zone they will definitely say you have Ebola and may take you away.
(10) Next time you see a pack of schoolchildren being dragged around Trafalgar Square, look at how they wear their rucksacks: they all wear them on their tummies.
(11) Putin then lifted the T-shirt of a small boy and “kissed him on the tummy”, Robin Tam QC, the counsel to the inquiry, told the high court on Monday.
(12) "I had beer, Claire had wine, and Alan had fizzy pop, but it all got mixed up in my tummy and I was sick on the bus home.
(13) On the eve of our staycation my daughter got a temperature and was up all night saying her tummy hurt.
(14) There was no official word on the happy event, only speculation sparked by the sudden absence of his wife's swollen tummy at a public appearance on New Year's Day.
(15) His tummy was tiny, his rib cage protruding and his spine was clearly visible all the way down his back.
(16) Skin folds under her tummy became chafed and sore, and sometimes developed infections.
(17) A transcript of the recording read out to the inquiry, and included in Atkins' earlier written witness statement , mentioned stories including "one of Girls Aloud having a boob job; Hugh Grant having a face tuck, Rhys Ifans having a tummy tuck and Guy Ritchie having a chemical peel".
(18) Her voice was superlative, soaring above even the rustle of chocolate wrappers and the rumbling of tummies waiting for the first batch of smoked salmon sandwiches.
(19) Various epithets used to describe this illness include GI trots, Aden gut, Barsa belly, Turkey trot, Delhi belly, Hongkong dog, Montezuma's revenge, gyppsy tummy and turista.
(20) The robotic cat, who travels back in time from the 22nd century, has an array of futuristic gadgets tucked away in a "fourth-dimensional" bottomless pocket on his tummy.