The enlarged segment of the digestive tube between the esophagus and the small intestines is termed the stomach, and is located in the abdominal cavity below the diaphragm, occupying the left hypochondriac, the epigastric, and part of the right...

A dainty stomach empties the purse. (German) A good stomach can digest everything. (German) Bargain on a full stomach. (Korean) Better a light stomach than a heavy conscience. (Greek) It proves a dainty stomach to taste of many things. (Roman) Let your...

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In anatomy, the stomach is a bean-shaped hollow muscular organ of the gastrointestinal tract involved in the second phase of digestion, following mastication. The word stomach is derived from the Latin stomachus, which derives from the Greek word...

The Word DURING LAST WEEK'S congressional debate on Iraq, House minority leader John Boehner argued that the resolution against troop increases would leave America's enemies "secure in the knowledge that America doesn't have the stomach to stop them." This intestinal-fortitude idiom has...

BILL PENNINGTON The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-22-1991 STOMACHING THE SCRUTINY By BILL PENNINGTON Date: 03-22-1991, Friday Section: SPORTS Edition: All Editions -- Four Star B, Three Star P, Two Star, One Star EAST RUTHERFORD -- Lorenzo Neely is the baby-faced point...

Napoleon Bonaparte died a more prosaic death than some people would like to think, succumbing to stomach cancer rather than arsenic poisoning, according to new research into what killed the French emperor.Theories that Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic have abounded since 1961, when an analysis...

An electronic capsule that becomes a sort of mini-laboratory when swallowed won federal approval, giving doctors another way to diagnose an uncomfortable stomach condition, its inventors said Thursday. The wireless device, about the size of a large vitamin...