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  • noun Plural form of abdomen.

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Examples

  • I was sitting all alone, wishing I knew more of the members, and suddenly he came, a great rolling front of chins and abdomina, towards me, and grunted and sat down in a chair close by me and wheezed for a space, and scraped for a space with a match and lit a cigar, and then addressed me.

    Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

  • Diagram of a transverse section through the anterior abdomina wall, below the linea semicircularis.

    Illustrations. Fig. 400 1918

  • I was sitting all alone, wishing I knew more of the members, and suddenly he came, a great rolling front of chins and abdomina, towards me, and grunted and sat down in a chair close by me and wheezed for a space, and scraped for a space with a match and lit a cigar, and then addressed me.

    The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 1906

  • While we contemplated their naked bodies, their unwieldy disproportioned abdomina, and their heads, too heavy for their necks to support, we could not but wonder when we reflected that these shiftless beings in a little more than a fortnight would be able to dash through the air almost with the inconceivable swiftness of a meteor, and perhaps in their emigration must traverse vast continents and oceans as distant as the equator.

    The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756

  • Colorado is also considering adding a second arm given the uncertainty of Rafael Bentancourt's lower abdomina ...

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local RoxFanInPhilly 2010

  • Colorado is also considering adding a second arm given the uncertainty of Rafael Bentancourt's lower abdomina ...

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • In simple words this is active abdomina expiration

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows seemasbg 2009

  • 400– Diagram of a transverse section through the anterior abdomina wall, below the linea semicircularis.

    IV. Myology. 6d. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Abdomen 1918

  • 1 3 • Ad coenam adducam, & primum hifce abdomina thyniu Advenientibu 'priva dabo, cephaleaque atarnae.

    A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ... Persius, Juvenal , Sulpicia, C . Lucilius, Gaius Lucilius, Johann August Ernesti, Societas Bipontina, Johann Albert Fabricius 1785

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