What is the difference between womb and abdomen?
womb | abdomen |
(anatomy) In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
(obsolete) The abdomen or stomach.
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*:And his hede, hym semed,was enamyled with asure, and his shuldyrs shone as the golde, and his wombe was lyke mayles of a merveylous hew.
(obsolete) The stomach of a person or creature.
*1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Jonah II:
*:And þe Lord made redi a gret fish þat he shulde swolewe Ionas; and Ionas was in wombe of þe fish þre da?es and þre ni?tis.
(figuratively) A place where something is made or formed.
*Dryden
*:The womb of earth the genial seed receives.
Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
*Robert Browning
*:The centre spike of gold / Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb .
(obsolete) To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
(obsolete) The fat surrounding the belly.
(anatomy) The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis, not including the back; or in some lower vertebrates, the portion between the cardiac and caudal regions.
(anatomy) The cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the viscera; often restricted in humans to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.
(zoology, entomology) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.
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In context|anatomy|lang=en terms the difference between womb and abdomen
is that womb is {{context|anatomy|lang=en}} in female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus {{defdate|from 8th c}} while abdomen is {{context|anatomy|lang=en}} the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the viscera; often restricted in humans to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity {{defdate|first attested in the early 17th century}}.In context|obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between womb and abdomen
is that womb is {{context|obsolete|lang=en}} to enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret while abdomen is {{context|obsolete|lang=en}} the fat surrounding the belly {{defdate|attested from the mid 16th century until the late 17th century}}{{reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =brown, lesley | others = | title = the shorter oxford english dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =oxford university press | location =oxford, uk | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =3| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =}}.As nouns the difference between womb and abdomen
is that womb is {{context|anatomy|lang=en}} in female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus {{defdate|from 8th c}} while abdomen is {{context|obsolete|lang=en}} the fat surrounding the belly {{defdate|attested from the mid 16th century until the late 17th century}}{{reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =brown, lesley | others = | title = the shorter oxford english dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =oxford university press | location =oxford, uk | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =3| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =}}.As a verb womb
is {{context|obsolete|lang=en}} to enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.womb
English
(uterus)Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (organ in mammals) uterus, matrix (poetic or literary''), belly (''poetic or literary )Verb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
abdomen
English
{{ picdic , image=Belly button.jpg , detail1= , detail2= }}Noun
(en-noun)- He was all bent over complaining of pains in the abdomen.
