Word: abdomenal
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...disease reaches an advanced stage. In many parts of the world, schistosomiasis is so much an accepted plague of life that the abdominal pain it causes, the blood in the urine and feces, often are disregarded until too late. After years of apparent health, a victim's abdomen may swell as he gradually grows weak and dies, his liver, lungs, urinary tract or even his heart damaged beyond hope from the irritation caused by thousands of parasite eggs...
Surgeons made an incision in Powell's abdomen, brought out part of the colon, and cut it halfway through. "From then on," said Powell, "fecal matter went no farther than this opening in my abdomen, and emptied into a pouch attached around my middle...
...donated kidney arrived right on schedule after a "bed" had been prepared for it at an unnatural site in the host's lower abdomen near the hipbone. Working quickly, the surgeons sutured vein, artery and ureter of the kidney to the host's blood vessels and ureter. After clamps were removed, blood began to course through the kidney. But it will be months before the doctors will know for sure whether the transplant was a success...
Rover. A stocky stranger, wearing a grey hat, a light raincoat and red gloves, opened the rear door and inquired. "Etes-vous Monsieur Lafond?" At Lafond's nod, he pumped two bullets into his victim's abdomen. then shot the chauffeur for good measure...
...against a black velvet background. Its feather-light tubular framework was brightly polished aluminum; parts made of magnesium were plated with yellow gold. Its solar panels were reddish purple, like wings of a giant butterfly, and gay little highlights sparkled all over its structure. Unseen in its golden hexagonal abdomen were electronic muscles, organs, brains and ganglia, woven together with hair-thin wire. Mariner I, designed for windless and weightless space, looked delicate, but when folded in the chrysalis position, it could take G forces that would crush that juicy colloid, the human body...