hypochondrium

American  

[hahy-puh-kon-dree-uhm] / ˌhaɪ pəˈkɒn dri əm /

noun

Anatomy.

plural

hypochondria

1. either of two regions of the abdomen, situated on each side of the epigastrium and above the lumbar regions.

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hypochondrium British  

/ ˌhaɪpəˈkɒndrɪəm /

noun

1. anatomy the upper region of the abdomen on each side of the epigastrium, just below the lowest ribs

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Etymology

Origin of hypochondrium

1690–1700; < New Latin < Greek hypochóndrion abdomen. See hypochondria, -ium

Example Sentences

Under these circumstances she was attacked with intermittent pains, in the right hypochondrium, of intolerable severity; resembling, in fact, the pain of biliary calculus, but without the sense of abdominal constriction, and without any vomiting.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.

If the blood is pure and clear, in large quantity, mixed perfectly with the urine and accompanied by pain in the right hypochondrium, it comes from the liver.

From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer

It is not hepatitis that we are called upon to cure; it is to relieve a pain in the shoulder and in the hypochondrium, or a difficulty of lying on the left side.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

The Ephemerides records a case in which there was the sense of two objects from a single touch on the hypochondrium.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

It had during its continuance brought on breathlessness on exertion, and what she called spasms or "grippings at the heart," no doubt the basis of her uneasy feelings in left hypochondrium.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various