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the body's overpacked suitcase, holding everything important and exactly zero supporting bones.
means the part of the body between the chest and the pelvis, housing the stomach, intestines, and most of the digestive plumbing.
from From Latin abdomen, the belly or paunch. The Romans themselves weren't sure where it came from — one old guess links it to abdere, 'to hide away,' as if the belly were the place the body tucks its secrets. That connection is more poetic than proven, so call it a possibility rather than a fact; the true root is simply lost.
- no skeleton
- Only muscle and pressure hold your organs in place
- length record
- Small intestine coils to about 20 feet inside
- second brain
- Gut houses 500 million neurons of its own
- insect origin
- Word means belly in Latin, possibly from to hide
- core truth
- Six-packs are one muscle divided by tendon bands