Epigastric

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Lying upon, distributed over, or pertaining to the abdomen or the stomach. Also, rarely, epigastræal, epigastral, epigastrial.
  • Superficial, a recurrent branch of the femoral supplying: the abdominal walls below the umbilicus.
  • Superior, the abdominal branch of the internal mammary.
  • noun. An epigastric artery.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Pertaining to the epigastrium, or to the epigastric region.
  • adjective. Over the stomach; -- applied to two of the areas of the carapace of crabs.
  • adjective. An arbitrary division of the abdomen above the umbilical and between the two hypochondriac regions.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the epigastrium
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  • adjective. lying on or over the stomach
  • adjective. of or relating to the anterior walls of the abdomen
  • Word Usage
    "The middle region of the upper zone is called the epigastric, and the two lateral regions the right and left hypochondriac."
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