n. | 1. | (Anat.) 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. |
2. | (Zool.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda. |
Noun | 1. | ![]() |
2. | ![]() Synonyms: abdominal cavity |
The area between the chest and the hips. Contains the stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and spleen.
To see your abdomen in a dream, refers to your natural instincts and repressed emotions. This symbol may also have a strictly physiological factor where you may be experiencing constipation or indigestion. Emotionally, seeing your abdomen in your dream may imply something in your real life that you "cannot stomach" or have difficulties accepting you wanted to get it out of your system. To dream that you abdomen is exposed, signifies trust and vulnerability. You may be expressing a desire to express your primal emotions/instinctsabomasum, anus, appendix, bay window, beerbelly, blind gut, bowels, brain, breadbasket, cecum, colon, corporation, craw, crop, diaphragm, duodenum, embonpoint, endocardium, entrails, first stomach, foregut, giblets, gizzard, gullet, gut, guts, heart, hindgut, honeycomb stomach, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, liver, liver and lights, lung, manyplies, maw, middle, midgut, midriff, midsection, omasum, perineum, pod, pot, potbelly, potgut, psalterium, pump, pusgut, pylorus, rectum, rennet bag, reticulum, rumen, second stomach, small intestine, spare tire, spleen, stomach, swagbelly, third stomach, ticker, tripes, tum-tum, tummy, underbelly, venter, ventripotence, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, works