epigastrium

English

Epigastrium

Noun

epigastrium (plural epigastria)

1. (anatomy) The upper middle region of the abdomen, between the umbilical and hypochondriac regions.
   • 1839, Robley Dunglison, Dunglison's American medical library:

     In cases of extreme thickening of the coats of the stomach, of a scirrhoid character, where the suffering patients are almost worn out with constant pain, such remedies, applied over the epigastrium, most materially alleviate the distress.

Related terms

• epigastrial
• epigastralgia
• epigastric

Translations

the upper middle region of the abdomen

• Czech: nadbřišek m
• Ido: epigastro (io)
• Ottoman Turkish: باغر (bağır)
• Portuguese: epigástrio m, boca do estômago (pt) f
• Spanish: epigastrio m