ABDOMINAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abdominal mean? 

• ABDOMINAL (noun)
  The noun ABDOMINAL has 1 sense:

1. the muscles of the abdomen

  Familiarity information: ABDOMINAL used as a noun is very rare.

• ABDOMINAL (adjective)
  The adjective ABDOMINAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or near the abdomen

  Familiarity information: ABDOMINAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABDOMINAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The muscles of the abdomen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

ab; abdominal; abdominal muscle

Hypernyms ("abdominal" is a kind of...):

skeletal muscle; striated muscle (a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abdominal"):

abdominal external oblique muscle; external oblique muscle; musculus obliquus externus abdominis; oblique (a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso)

musculus transversalis abdominis; transverse muscle of abdomen; transversus abdominis; transversus abdominis muscle (a flat muscle with transverse fibers that forms the anterior and lateral walls of the abdominal cavity)

Holonyms ("abdominal" is a part of...):

abdomen; belly; stomach; venter (the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis)

• ABDOMINAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or near the abdomen

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

abdominal muscles

Pertainym:

abdomen (the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis)

Derivation:

abdomen (the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis)

abdomen (the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm)

 Context examples 

The spread of cancer from a primary site to an unspecified organ in the abdominal cavity.

(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Abdominal Cavity, NCI Thesaurus)

One of the factors that best correlates obesity with the rest of the metabolic syndrome is not overall body mass, but the distribution of adipose tissue in the abdominal region, visceral obesity.

(Metabolic Syndrome Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines.

(Mesentery, NCI Thesaurus)

It occurs in the peritoneum, extraperitoneal space, omentum, or pelvic or abdominal viscera.

(Multicystic Mesothelioma, NCI Thesaurus)

A mixed exocrine and endocrine gland situated transversely across the posterior abdominal wall in the epigastric and hypochondriac regions.

(Murine Pancreas, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The venous trunk which receives blood from the lower extremities and from the pelvic and abdominal organs.

(Murine Inferior Vena Cava, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The peritoneal membrane that attaches the intestines to the abdominal wall near the back.

(Mesenteric membrane, NCI Dictionary)

A branch of the abdominal aorta that supplies blood to the intestines.

(Mesenteric Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical signs and symptoms include dysphagia, abdominal pain, and weight loss.

(Adenocarcinoma of the Gastroesophageal Junction, NCI Thesaurus)

The appendiceal wall rupture causes the release of inflammatory and bacterial contents from the appendiceal lumen into the abdominal cavity.

(Acute Perforated Appendicitis, NCI Thesaurus)