ABDOMINAL MUSCLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abdominal muscle mean? 

• ABDOMINAL MUSCLE (noun)
  The noun ABDOMINAL MUSCLE has 1 sense:

1. the muscles of the abdomen

  Familiarity information: ABDOMINAL MUSCLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABDOMINAL MUSCLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The muscles of the abdomen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

ab; abdominal; abdominal muscle

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)

 Context examples 

Some people are born with weak abdominal muscles and may be more likely to get a hernia.

(Hernia, NIH)