It will, however, flood your abdominal cavity with highly corrosive stomach acids and infection-causing bacteria, resulting in a medical emergency.

Before peritonitis and widespread inflammation within the abdominal cavity, the appendix must either leak through a perforation or form an abscess that ruptures.

She has since learnt that, owing to a fault with the tubing, the liquid was going straight into her abdominal cavity.

Their device could travel through the digestive or urinary tract, or into the abdominal cavity.

As someone's weight increases the muscles that support the abdominal cavity are apt to be separated if the girth has become too great.