2006-10-09 04:51:24 · 12 answers · asked by david d 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Yes stomach is where your food gos and is above your belly button internal your belly is external and around your belly button.
2006-10-12 06:21:22 · answer #1 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a bit like 'neck' and 'throat'.
Stomach is internal; it's where your food's digested, but because it's so easy to find, people just use it generally to mean 'the bit below my ribs and above my bellybutton'.
Belly is also internal, but it means the whole abdominal cavity. The surface of this is called an 'underbelly' in livestock, but because humans are more often upright, the 'under' wouldn't make any sense, so 'belly' just gets used for the front of the abdomen generally (where the bellybutton can be found).
A lot of people use 'belly' to mean 'pot-belly' or 'beer-belly', because it's somehow a bulgey kind of word: if it's not bulgey it's usually a 'midriff' or 'flat stomach'.
2006-10-09 12:02:05 · answer #2 · answered by Fitology 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there is no difference, unless you are talking about the actual anatomical organ, in which case stomach is correct. Belly and stomach are interchangeable. Stomach is another word for belly, and vice versa. If you hit someone in the stomach, you are also hitting them in the belly. If your stomach hurts, your belly is hurting, too. They are both used as a word for "abdomen."
2006-10-09 12:05:30 · answer #3 · answered by Bad Kitty! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The stomach is in the mid part of the abdomen and is basically a sack of acids and enzymes that breaks down food. The Belly is a nick name for the lower abdomen which contains the intestines. These digest the food and extract all the nutrients and liquids before they are passed on for excretion.
2006-10-09 11:55:05 · answer #4 · answered by Charlie Brigante 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a stomach is the organ and the belly is an area of the body
2006-10-09 11:55:03 · answer #5 · answered by dmizell1221 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as i understand it the stomach is the organ that digests food but the belly is the intestines as well and refers to the general abdominal area
2006-10-10 04:11:52 · answer #6 · answered by minerva 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the stomach is in the body and the belly is the flab outside, my sons answer not mine !!!! he is 13
2006-10-09 11:58:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the belly is slang for a drooping heavy beer swillers gut.
2006-10-09 12:04:41 · answer #8 · answered by blu.boy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your stomach is where you digest your food and your belly counts as all your intestines and stomach...as an area
2006-10-09 11:55:51 · answer #9 · answered by Quintus T 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no, both mean the same thing, stomach is just a more polite way to say it.
2006-10-09 12:00:06 · answer #10 · answered by grumpcookie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋