hypogastrium

American  

[hahy-puh-gas-tree-uhm] / ˌhaɪ pəˈgæs tri əm /

noun

Anatomy.

plural

hypogastria

1. the lower and median part of the abdomen.

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hypogastrium British  

/ ˌhaɪpəˈɡæstrɪəm /

noun

1. anatomy the lower front central region of the abdomen, below the navel

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Other Word Forms

• hypogastric adjective

Etymology

Origin of hypogastrium

1675–85; < New Latin < Greek hypogástrion, equivalent to hypo- hypo- + gastríon ( gastr-, stem of gastḗr paunch + -ion diminutive suffix)

Example Sentences

This is Nature’s palladium, health’s magazine; it works seven manner of ways, as Nature requires, for it scorns to be confined to any particular mode of operation; so that it affecteth the cure either hypnotically, hydrotically, cathartically, poppismatically, pneumatically, or synedochically; it mundifies the hypogastrium, extinguishes all supernatural fermentations and ebullitions, and, in fine, annihilates all nosotrophical morbific ideas of the whole corporeal compages.

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Heavy, all-gone sort of feeling low down in hypogastrium; color of stool was dark brown with pieces of undigested food in it.

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The five Pairs which take their Rise from between the Vertebra's of the Loins, have thicker Branches than the others, and the distribution of them is made to the Muscles of the Loins, Hypogastrium, and Thighs.

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What Parts are there contain'd in the Hypogastrium, and of what Place are they possest?

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It is from the Xyphoides or Sword-like Cartilage to the Os Pubis, the division whereof into three equal Parts, constitutes the three different Regions; the Epigastrium being the first upward, the Umbilicus the second, and the Hypogastrium the third.

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