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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They showed a bewildered and comic embarrassment as the attendant directed them to bare the hypogastrium.

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As for Example; It is known that one of the thick Guts is open'd, when the Hurt is found in the Hypogastrium, and the Excrements are voided at the Wound; as it is certain that one of the thin Guts is pierc'd, when the Wound appears in the Navel, and the Chyle issueth forth from thence; and so of the others.

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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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