stomach exercise
tummy crunch | an exercise designed to strengthen the abdominal muscles |
carpet bombing
area bombing
saturation bombing | an extensive and systematic bombing intended to devastate a large target |
blastoderm
germinal disc
blastodisc
germinal area | a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula |
rumen
first stomach | the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant, here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing |
reticulum
second stomach | the second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant |
psalterium
omasum
third stomach | the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant |
abomasum
fourth stomach | the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant, the one where digestion takes place |
| area | a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function, the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants |
breakfast area
breakfast nook | a place for light meals (usually near a kitchen), the breakfast nook had a built in table and seats |
cargo area
cargo deck
cargo hold
hold storage area | the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo |
| dining area | an area arranged for dining, they put up tents for the dining area |
equal-area projection
equal-area map projection | a map projection in which quadrilaterals formed by meridians and parallels have an area on the map proportional to their area on the globe |
exhibition hall
exhibition area | a large hall for holding exhibitions |
launching pad
launchpad
launch pad
launch area
pad | a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched |
local area network
LAN | a local computer network for communication between computers, especially a network connecting computers and word processors and other electronic office equipment to create a communication system between offices |
lounge
waiting room
waiting area | a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait |
pull-off
rest area
rest stop
layby
lay-by | designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily |
seating
seats
seating room
seating area | an area that includes places where several people can sit, there is seating forstudents in this classroom |
| stomach pump | a suction pump used to remove the contents of the stomach |
wide area network
WAN | a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network |
wireless local area network
WLAN
wireless fidelity
WiFi | a local area network that uses high frequency radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet, uses ethernet protocol |
area
expanse
surface area | the extent of a -dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary, the area of a rectangle, it was about square feet in area |
acreage
land area | an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming), he wanted some acreage to build on |
area
region | a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve, in the abdominal region |
| area of cardiac dullness | a triangular area of the front of the chest (determined by percussion), corresponds to the part of the heart not covered by the lungs |
stomach
tummy
tum
breadbasket | an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal, the principal organ of digestion |
macula
macula lutea
macular area
yellow spot | a small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision |
pyriform area
piriform area
pyriform lobe
piriform lobe | pear-shaped neural structure on either side of the brain in the rhinencephalon |
cortical area
cortical region | any of various regions of the cerebral cortex |
association area
association cortex | cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information |
auditory area
auditory cortex | the cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body |
Broca's area
Broca's center
Broca's gyrus
Broca's convolution
convolution of Broca | the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people |
| Brodmann's area | one of the cortical areas mapped out on the basis of its cytoarchitecture |
language area
language zone | a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language |
motor area
motor region
motor cortex
Rolando's area
excitable area | the cortical area that influences motor movements |
sensorimotor area
sensorimotor region | an area of the cortex including the precentral gyrus and the postcentral gyrus and combining sensory and motor functions |
visual area
visual cortex | the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus |
Wernicke's area
Wernicke's center | the auditory word center, located in the posterior part of the superior temporal convolution in most people |
striate cortex
striate area
first visual area
area of Brodmann
Brodmann's are | the part of the occipital cortex that receives the fibers of the optic radiation from the lateral geniculate body and is the primary receptive area for vision |
pit of the stomach
epigastric fossa | a slight depression in the midline just below the sternum (where a blow can affect the solar plexus) |
abdomen
venter
stomach belly | the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis |
pubes
pubic region
loins | the lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs |
Hell Hades
infernal region netherworld
Scheol
underworld | (religion) the world of the dead, No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth-Theognis |
Hell
perdition
Inferno infernal region
nether region
pit | (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil, where sinners suffer eternal punishment, Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell- John Milton, a demon from the depths of the pit, Hell is paved with good intentions-Dr. Johnson |
hellfire
red region | a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned |
| area | a subject of study, it was his area of specialization, areas of interest include... |
discipline
subject
subject area
subject field
field
field of study
study bailiwick | a branch of knowledge, in what discipline is his doctorate?, teachers should be well trained in their subject, anthropology is the study of human beings |
region
realm | a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about, it was a limited realm of discourse, here we enter the region of opinion, the realm of the occult |
grey area
gray area | an intermediate area, a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other |
| area code | a number usually of digits assigned to a telephone area as in the United States and Canada |