hypochondrium
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hypochondrium
1690–1700; < New Latin < Greek hypochóndrion abdomen. See hypochondria, -ium
Example Sentences
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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
On examining the right hypochondrium, which he described as swollen, there was evident indication of an enlarged liver, and he complained much of shooting pain in that region during a paroxysm of cough.
From An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners by Makellar, Archibald
In such cases there is not only spinal tenderness, but very usually also a well-marked tenderness in the epigastrium and the left hypochondrium, the trepied hysterique of Briquet.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.
He had four paroxysms before the doctor saw him, the last one being attended by much pain in the left hypochondrium.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
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.
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