EPIGASTRIUM
\ˌɛpɪɡˈastɹi͡əm], \ˌɛpɪɡˈastɹiəm], \ˌɛ_p_ɪ_ɡ_ˈa_s_t_ɹ_iə_m]\
Definitions of EPIGASTRIUM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William R. Warner
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The epigastric region; the sternal portions of the meso- and metathorax of insects.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Lit., that which lies upon or over the stomach; the superior central region of the abdomen, containing the middle and pyloric end of the stomach, the left lobe of the liver and the lobus Spigelii, the hepatic vessels, the celiac axis, the semilunar ganglia, the pancreas, and parts of the aorta, vena cava, vena azygos, and thoracic duct. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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