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hypogastrium
[ hahy-puh-gas-tree-uhm ]
noun
- the lower and median part of the abdomen.
hypogastrium
/ ËŒ³ó²¹Éª±èəˈɡæ²õ³Ù°ùɪə³¾ /
noun
- anatomy the lower front central region of the abdomen, below the navel
Derived Forms
- ËŒ³ó²â±è´Çˈ²µ²¹²õ³Ù°ù¾±³¦, adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of hypogastrium1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of hypogastrium1
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.
Heavy, all-gone sort of feeling low down in hypogastrium; color of stool was dark brown with pieces of undigested food in it.
They showed a bewildered and comic embarrassment as the attendant directed them to bare the hypogastrium.
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.
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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