1. Belly definition, the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen

2. Vagal Afferent neurons are present within the body and caudal pole of the nodose ganglion from which vagal Afferent fibers innervating the abdominal viscera originate (Dockray and Sharkey, 1986; Green and Dockray, 1987, 1988; Sharkey and Williams, 1983).The rat nodose ganglion is composed of about 6000 neurons (Cooper, 1984).1