Word: abdomenal
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...small current is applied briefly. Readings measure the amount of resistance to the current, and are used to determine the percentage of fat. The simplest and least expensive technique is the skin-fold test, in which calipers are used to measure pinches of skin at various sites, including the abdomen, thighs and back. One problem: the accuracy of the results varies with the skill of the measurer...
...believe, that prompted Rault to kill her. On the afternoon of March 1, 1982, he asked the young woman for a ride to his C.P.A. night class at L.S.U.'s local campus. Once in Francioni's white Mustang, Rault produced a .25-cal. pistol and shot her in the abdomen. He raped her, beat her and slit her throat with a knife. The two hours of viciousness ended when he dumped her body on the city's east side and set the body afire to cover his crime. But an off-duty state trooper spotted the blaze, and minutes later...
...backs to break their skin and then wiggle free. A day later they are ready to fly away. All of this is merely a prelude to courtship, with the male cicadas seeking to attract mates with their staccato siren song, produced by vigorously vibrating two drumlike appendages on the abdomen...
...family at the beach: kids playing, Dad holding a beer can, Mom in a light blue bikini spray-painted on her shapely form. Enter Kathleen Zanio, 43, a former Franciscan nun, who drove by the sculpture one afternoon. "Here was this woman with large, protruding breasts and abdomen," says Zanio frostily. "It was obnoxious and repulsive...
Laurance D. Myers died September 17 from cardiac arrest while receiving emergency treatment for severe wounds to his chest, abdomen and wrists. The County Prosecutor later determined that there was no evidence to contradict the hypothesis of suicide...