The word 'abdomen' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this word when referring to the part of the body located between the chest and the pelvis. For example, "The patient's pain was concentrated in their abdomen."
In another of the series she depicts a void in the mother's abdomen, where the infant had been.
In his autobiographical novel, The Kindness of Women, JG Ballard glosses his experience of dissection as a Cambridge medical student thus: "As the four teams began to dissect this unknown woman, opening flaps of skin in her limbs, neck and abdomen, she seemed to undress in a last act of self-revelation, unpacking herself of all the mortal elements of her life".
"Mister, please … belt …" A guard responded, but he not only didn't help me, he tightened the belt even more around my abdomen.
Glancing down at her gravid abdomen Achemwemwe exclaims "Zimachitika!" which loosely translates 'it happens' reflecting the de facto attitude to healthcare in Malawi.
My ambition: to have a concave abdomen defined by deep-cut obliques.
It sounds bad: A platoon sergeant from another company in their battalion was shot in the thigh and abdomen.
"Then they listed the other organs which had been removed, including his brain and organs from his chest and abdomen.
Bob is very proud of his abdominals, and writes about vying for "a concave abdomen defined by deep-cut obliques".
"My ambition [is] to have a concave abdomen defined by deep-cut obliques".
Open surgery doesn't have this problem, because the abdomen is laid bare to the surgeon, and even laparoscopic surgery involves placing at least three (and sometimes as many as five) separate instruments into the abdomen from different directions, through different incisions.
Rather than operating on the abdomen by making incisions in the skin, it involves passing flexible instruments through the body's orifices and entering the abdomen from the inside.One of the most widely studied approaches is "transgastric" surgery, in which the instruments are passed through the mouth and into the stomach.
