What's the difference between midriff and torso?

Midriff


Definition:

  • (n.) See Diaphragm, n., 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The researchers said their findings required validation by others but pointed out that an expanding waistline had been linked to other cancers, including those of the pancreas, lining of the womb, and ovaries, possibly because midriff fat was more harmful.
  • (2) Iniesta went down but was waved up, Sergio Busquets brought a save from Thibaut Courtois and Dani Alves's thumped cross hit Messi's midriff.
  • (3) Étienne Capoue at least had a go at testing Bravo with a shot into the goalkeeper’s midriff before Ighalo volleyed over Amrabat’s right-wing delivery, Watford’s best chance to change the complexion of the night.
  • (4) Ivory Coast, also, were lucky to get to the break with 11 men after Serey Die, already cautioned for thrusting his studs into the midriff of Wakaso Mubarak, was extremely fortunate to escape a second yellow for a foul on Atsu.
  • (5) The Newcastle enforcer planted his studs into Sánchez’s midriff and it was a surprise that Mason took no action.
  • (6) The Spurs manager's team were utterly overrun, with Paulinho sent off for a lunge into the midriff of their tormentor in chief, Luis Suárez, as they sank without trace.
  • (7) The mega pop star's 17-year-old midriff had seemed to captivate and anger the entire world overnight.
  • (8) Classified as a part of thoraco-abdominal traumas and polytraumas, midriff traumatic rhexis must be operated as soon as possible.
  • (9) 9.10pm BST 69 mins Bosnia corner, won by Lulic with a cross driven into Corona's midriff.
  • (10) A woman gazes into the lens, blood on her face, dust in her hair, all over her, clothes so ripped and dishevelled that her bra and her midriff are clearly visible, her body twisted in an airport seat so that she can prop up her injured foot, from which her mangled shoe still dangles.
  • (11) 87 min: Messi picks up the ball 25 yards out, turns, and unleashes a shot straight into Neuer's midriff.
  • (12) A referee might respond that a player is asking for trouble by connecting with an opponent's midriff.
  • (13) The Leeds striker missed a glorious opening within a minute, placing a free header from Harte's cross into the keeper's midriff and seeing a hopeful shot deflected wide from a McAteer cross soon after.
  • (14) The first flash of Afellay’s class almost led to Marco van Ginkel scoring the opener, only for the midfielder to catch Adrián in the midriff with his studs.
  • (15) The problem was it also left the boy writhing in apparent pain and clutching his midriff as various Swansea players ran over to remonstrate.
  • (16) In addition, a majority of the women were dissatisfied with the shape of their stomach, hips, midriff, waist, thighs and buttocks.
  • (17) Her sound and style is a cut'n'paste pastiche of a decade – the 90s – that she was too young to experience the first time around but can relive through Tumblr photo collages: a little bit Republica meets Scary Spice, a little bit midriff-baring Disney Kid gone off the rails.
  • (18) He cut inside and shot but he picked out Rui Patrício’s midriff.
  • (19) Johnny Weissmuller won five Olympic swimming golds before he played Tarzan, but his midriff now looks almost flabby compared to Alexander Skarsgård’s six-pack in The Legend of Tarzan .
  • (20) Predictably, he was booked before half-time, having caught Messi in the midriff with a swinging boot.

Torso


Definition:

  • (n.) The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
  • (2) The fashion in Hollywood leading men now is for the sort of sculpted torso that requires months, if not years, of dedicated abdominal crunching.
  • (3) To test the hypothesis that during unsupported arm exercise (UAE) some of the inspiratory muscles of the rib cage partake in upper torso and arm positioning and thereby decrease their contribution to ventilation, we studied 11 subjects to measure pleural (Ppl) and gastric (Pga) pressures, heart rate, respiratory frequency, O2 uptake (VO2), and tidal volume (VT) during symptom-limited UAE.
  • (4) Transfer impedance vectors between 81 lead points on the human torso model and 392 positions covering ventricular areas in the torso were measure.
  • (5) We found that the maps reflected relatively faithfully the underlying dipolar source for the homogeneous torso and even for the torso with lungs.
  • (6) The authors question whether amounts of lidocaine greater than the recommended dosage may be safely used in the patient undergoing lipoplasty of the torso and knees.
  • (7) We describe a fast and numerically effective biomagnetic inverse solution using a moving dipole in a realistic homogeneous torso.
  • (8) In weightlessness, "falls" were achieved using elastic cords running from a torso harness to the floor.
  • (9) Seven months later the upper half of his torso was found buried in woodland in West Sussex.
  • (10) The victim's lower torso and automobile were also found along the same path 31 m (101 ft) and 41 m (133 ft) beyond the sign, respectively.
  • (11) The developmental signal that specifies the fates of cells at the anterior and posterior termini of the Drosophila embryo is transmitted by the torso receptor tyrosine kinase.
  • (12) Care of the experimental babies included supporting the head on a small water pillow and supporting the torso at the same level to avoid flexion or curvature of the spine; the control group received customary care.
  • (13) To this effect, scaling of the torso model can easily be included in the computation.
  • (14) Lower torso injuries occurred primarily in frontal impacts in both the back and front seats.
  • (15) His head and torso were tightly bandaged, bloodstained gauze protruding from between the layers.
  • (16) Pelvic rotations are described, but no evident relationships between pelvic rotations in the different planes and ILBM-activity could be seen, probably because the changes in the position of the torso are of more importance.
  • (17) Some of the museum’s mannequins had their torsos hacked out, the waists of McQueen’s clothes being impossibly small, even by mannequin standards.
  • (18) Conversely, older patients (60 years of age or older) injured in falls are more likely to have operable intracranial mass lesions without significant injury to the torso (p less than 0.001).
  • (19) Doses to organs in the torso were calculated from the waist-level film badge dosemeter reading using normalised organ dose data.
  • (20) The torso apparatus is used to practice insertion of a hemodynamic monitoring catheter; the cardiac monitor displays catheter pressure readings as the catheter is advanced into the heart and also pulmonary artery and wedge position.

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