The body-mass index (the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) was 14.7. He was cachectic appearing with temporal wasting and a scaphoid abdomen. Mucous membranes were ...

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized for severe abdominal pain related to a wound sustained when he was stabbed on the campaign trail seven years ago. The source of the pain ...

It's because the "dessert stomach" is a real thing in a person's brain. "We wanted to find out why, even in a state of satiety, we consume high-sugar-containing foods," Henning Fenselau ...

That gnawing pain in your stomach might be more than just ordinary indigestion. Medical experts warn that stomach ulcers, painful sores that develop in the stomach lining, require proper medical ...

Computer scientists used AI to create the largest abdominal organ dataset yet in under two years—a task that would have taken two millennia for humans alone The dataset will help researchers around ...

The young woman was no stranger to gut issues. But now the pressure in her abdomen had become an emergency. By Lisa Sanders, M.D. The 22-year-old woman almost wept as the long line of passengers ...

High-pitched bowel sounds were audible all over the left side of the patient's chest and an inward concavity of the anterior abdominal wall—known as a scaphoid abdomen—was seen; no tenderness was ...

Ouch! You may know that pain in your lower right abdomen is infamously linked to appendicitis, but what about pain in your lower left abdomen? While it could simply be a muscle strain, it’s ...

Stomach cancer, also called gastric cancer, develops when cells in the stomach lining begin to grow out of control. People usually don’t experience any symptoms in the early stages, which makes ...

The stomach can grow in size after you eat, but by how much? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. After digging into a delicious ...

Abdomen: Funny word! Funny name for a band, too! Abdomen are a Dutch power trio, and they make clangy, psychedelic rock music. They’ve been putting out music since 2016, and their debut album ...

In this selective review, we explore, first, the effect of administering an analgesic agent during the initial evaluation of acute abdominal pain; second, the essential role of imaging ...