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Excerpt from A Compendious Medical Dictionary: Containing an Explanation of the Terms in Anatomy, Physiology, Surgery, Materia Medica, Chemistry, and Practice of Physic
Abdomen. The belly from abdo, to hide because it hides the viscera. A cavity between the thorax and the be! Vis, lined by a smooth membrane called the peritoneum, and; containing the mrientum or epiploon, stomach and intestines, liver, gall bladder, nicsentery, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, renal glands or capsules; part ofthe thoracic duct, descending aortal and vena cava ascendens. Externally the abdomen? Is distin gushed into the epigastric, hypochondriac, umbilical, and by? Pogastric regions.
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