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ABDOMINAL MUSCLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The muscles of the abdomen
Synonyms:
ab; abdominal; abdominal muscle
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("abdominal muscle" is a kind of...):
skeletal muscle; striated muscle (a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abdominal muscle"):
abdominal external oblique muscle; external oblique muscle; musculus obliquus externus abdominis; oblique (a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso)
musculus transversalis abdominis; transverse muscle of abdomen; transversus abdominis; transversus abdominis muscle (a flat muscle with transverse fibers that forms the anterior and lateral walls of the abdominal cavity)
Holonyms ("abdominal muscle" is a part of...):
abdomen; belly; stomach; venter (the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis)
