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hypogastrium

[ hahy-puh-gas-tree-uhm ]

noun

Anatomy.
plural hypogastria
  1. the lower and median part of the abdomen.


hypogastrium

/ ËŒ³ó²¹Éª±èəˈɡæ²õ³Ù°ùɪə³¾ /

noun

  1. anatomy the lower front central region of the abdomen, below the navel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ËŒ³ó²â±è´Çˈ²µ²¹²õ³Ù°ù¾±³¦, adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hypogastrium1

1675–85; < New Latin < Greek ³ó²â±è´Ç²µÃ¡²õ³Ù°ù¾±´Ç²Ô, equivalent to hypo- hypo- + ²µ²¹²õ³Ù°ùí´Ç²Ô ( gastr-, stem of ²µ²¹²õ³Ùḗr paunch + -ion diminutive suffix)
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hypogastrium1

C17: from New Latin, from Greek hupogastrion, from hypo- + gastrion, diminutive of ²µ²¹²õ³Ùŧ°ù stomach
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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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