I felt embarrassed because...

Abdomen

Oh yeah. I'm talking about my abdomen all the time.

I daren't even hazard a guess what you habitually talk through jingl or my post would be deleted for sure

gastric or abdominal pain, I guess.

Oh go on Anya. Give it a go. I'll read it quickly, before it gets deleted.

Pointing to the place where the pain is works pretty well - no chance of misunderstanding.

Well jingl that also raises an interesting point in terminology re body parts.

Would you prefer bum or bottom or shall we use more technically appropriate terms such as 'anus'....I suppose we could go all Hyacinth Bucket and say derriére ????

I like bottie.

Haven't we already had a thread about that?

Arse is good in some contexts.

Like, talking out of.

There are so many bits and pieces of one's 'innards' that it's difficult to tell a doctor just what's wrong. Could I go into the consulting room and say 'I have a pain in my duodenum/gall bladder/spleen/...' without some specialist knowledge which is why we use general terms like 'tummy' or 'stomach' and leave it to the doctor to prod about a bit and make a diagnosis.

Your arse is perfect jingl , exactly right.

I have no idea where my spleen is. Or what it does. Or what a pain in it would feel like.

Please don't anybody tell me.

Better not vent it then....

If you have a ruptured spleen and you lie down and raise your legs, the pain will be felt in the tip of your left shoulder.

Acknowledgements to Dr Google.

So if you avoid lying down and raising your legs you're fine?

And you might be bleeding to death. Or don't you watch Casualty?

It doesn't cause it. It's diagnostic.

Yes. Watch cas. Don't learn much though.

24 Hours in A&E is much better because it's real. Not on at the moment.

I had an ache in my -- intestinal area-- tummy the other day.

Perhaps I should have got Charlie Fairhead to look at it.

Our stomach in the centre just below thecrib cage

-our stomach is in the centre just below the rib cage---

Prefer Casuality meself, anno thanks very much!

Oh! You're talking about another tv programme! Sorry!

DH used to call it that!