ABDOMINAL WALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abdominal wall mean? 

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

1. a wall of the abdomen

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABDOMINAL WALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wall of the abdomen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("abdominal wall" is a kind of...):

paries; wall ((anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure)

Holonyms ("abdominal wall" is a part of...):

abdomen; belly; stomach; venter (the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis)

 Context examples 

The layers of tissue that line the abdominal wall and the pelvic cavity.

(Parietal Part of the Peritoneum, NCI Dictionary)

The placement of a feeding tube through the abdominal wall into the stomach using an endoscope.

(Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy, NCI Thesaurus)

Either of the two naturally ocurring spaces between the colon and the abdominal wall, lateral to the ascending and descending colons.

(Paracolic Gutter, NCI Thesaurus)

A congenital defect in the muscles of the abdominal wall that results in the intestines and other abdominal organs developing outside the abdominal wall covered in a sac.

(Omphalocele, NCI Thesaurus)

A procedure that uses a laparoscope, inserted through the abdominal wall, to examine the inside of the abdomen.

(Laparoscopy, NCI Dictionary)

Cancer of the tissue that lines the abdominal wall and covers organs in the abdomen.

(Malignant Peritoneal Neoplasm, NCI Dictionary)

The placement of a feeding tube through the abdominal wall into the stomach with the assistance of fluoroscopic guidance.

(Percutaneous Fluoroscopic Gastrostomy, NCI Thesaurus)

Having to do with the peritoneum (the tissue that lines the abdominal wall and covers most of the organs in the abdomen).

(Peritoneal, NCI Dictionary)

It consists of the parietal peritoneum that covers the inside of the abdominal wall and the visceral peritoneum that covers the surface of the intestine and mesentery.

(Peritoneum, NCI Thesaurus)

Inflammation of the peritoneum (tissue that lines the abdominal wall and covers most of the organs in the abdomen).

(Peritonitis, NCI Dictionary)