Definition: The area between the chest and the hips. Contains the stomach, small intestine, large intestine, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and spleen.
Pronunciation: AB-doh-men
Common Misspellings: adomen, adbomen, abdomin, adbomin, adomin
Abdomen
From National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), for About.com
Updated: March 25, 2009
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