hypogastrium

[ hahy-puh-gas-tree-uhm ]

noun

, Anatomy.

, plural hy·po·gas·tri·a [hahy-p, uh, -, gas, -tree-, uh].

1. the lower and median part of the abdomen.

hypogastrium

/ ˌhaɪpəˈɡæstrɪəm /

noun

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

Derived Forms

• ˌhypoˈgastric, adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of hypogastrium¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of hypogastrium¹

C17: from New Latin, from Greek hupogastrion, from hypo- + gastrion, diminutive of gastēr stomach

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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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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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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