hypogastric
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of hypogastric
From the New Latin word hypogastricus, dating back to 1605–15. See hypogastrium, -ic
Example Sentences
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At the same time, sympathetic nervous activity via the hypogastric nerves suppresses contraction of the detrusor muscle.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
These, the upper polarized centers, have now the positive rôle to play, the solar and the hypogastric plexuses, the lumbar and the sacral ganglia, these have the submissive, negative rôle for the time being.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The one pole should be connected with the head-electrode, the other, by means of the surface board, applied alternately, to the epigastrium, chiefly, and to the hypogastric region.
From The Electric Bath by George M. Schweig
She died at sixty-one of peripneumonia, and on postmortem examination a tumor was found occupying part of the hypogastric and umbilical regions.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Out of the newness of the living blood pass the new strange waves which beat upon the great dynamic centers of the nerves: primarily upon the hypogastric plexus and the sacral ganglion.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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