Charles Duhigg

Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in 1998, to a hospice founded by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. Nuns at the mission reportedly placed a medallion with Teresa's image on Besra's abdomen, and the tumor disappeared.

American Journalist

Alice Oswald

Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps.

British Poet

August Krogh

In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practically always very nearly atmospheric, and must be so, because the integuments give way very easily to any excess of pressure, whether positive or negative.

Danish Scientist

James Gleick

Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.

American Author

Sherwin B. Nuland

Of all the named structures within the abdomen and the chest, those associated with reproduction retained the mysteries of their willful behavior long after others had been solved to the satisfaction of physicians and philosophers.

American Scientist

Owen Hart

I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.

Canadian Wrestler

Bill Goldberg

I tore my abdomen. That ended my football career, which was what I wanted to do my entire life, and when that was over, I pretty much looked to just about anything, but nothing really caught my interest.

American Wrestler

Friedrich Nietzsche

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

German Philosopher

The muscles in my lower abdomen had torn off my pelvis.

Often used in healthcare to describe pain, injury, or surgery location.

Medical Context

Reference to core strength or exercises focusing on the abdominal muscles.

Physiology Relevance

Common term to describe the area where a baby develops during pregnancy.

Pregnancy Reference

Note that in zoology, 'abdomen' refers to a specific body segment distinct from the head and thorax.

Biological Segment

Remember this zoological use is not applicable to human anatomy.

Not in Humans

In many animals, the abdomen houses vital structures like the heart in insects.

Animal Anatomy

 It tends to live around decaying plant matter. So places like this are amazing for it because it's a ferocious predator. So that's where it likes to hunt all of its invertebrates. It's very quick, and it's also got a couple of defence mechanisms and threat displays so it can raise up its abdomen a bit like a scorpion, it does a scorpion like pose, and that's to intimidate its predators.

Discovering Wildlife in...

 This is an ant that stores its colleagues' honey in its abdomen. Each one of these organisms that we've described -- that you've seen from Jamie and others, these magnificent things -- what they're doing, each one of them, is they're hacking the rules of life.

Kevin Kelly: How...

 hormones, nerves, and blood all work together to break down food, modulate the digestive process, and deliver its final products. Finally, there's the mesentery, a large stretch of tissue that supports and positions all your digestive organs in the abdomen,

How your digestive...

 it pushes its way out of the abdomen of that ladybug and it spins its cocoon. And the problem is this cocoon is a very vulnerable stage in the lifecycle of this wasp. It's just sitting there immobile ready to be eaten by any predator that walks by.

Zombie Parasites PIPE Nat...

 sort of like a built-in weather station. If the conditions are right, the spider then "tiptoes" on its back legs, raises its abdomen, and releases its silk to the air. The silk strands are charged, which causes them to repel away from each other

How Spiders Use...

 fish this very well could be a world record fish so we want to make sure we get a weight this is a pregnant female and the doctor has an ultrasound machine she's going to do an ultrasound of the abdomen here to see if the babies are alright

World's Largest...

 roof are their storage pots full of honey each one is alive an ant with an abdomen expanded to the size of a grape the small dark flecks are the hard plates which protect the body of a normal-sized and it's the membrane

David Attenborough Eats...

 his abdomen will continue mating with her for several hours before all signs of life disappear the strategy may seem macabre but it gives the female a large quantity of protein with which he can produce even more eggs

The Headless Mating...

 or, in the rare case of the platypus, through ducts in the abdomen. Although this process is typically reserved for females, in some species, like dayak fruit bats, goats, and even cats, males can also lactate.

The science of milk -...

 Just between your chest and abdomen is where you’ll find one of the most important muscles you probably didn't know you

Abdomen