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Definition of Epigastric
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the anterior walls of the abdomen. "Epigastric artery"
2. Adjective. Lying on or over the stomach.
Definition of Epigastric
1. a. Pertaining to the epigastrium, or to the epigastric region.
Definition of Epigastric
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the epigastrium ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Epigastric
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Epigastric
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Epigastric
Literary usage of Epigastric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"When the obturator arises from the epigastric, it is supplied with blood by branches,
... The epigastric receives its supply from the internal mammary and ..."
2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"The French were evidently aware of the frequent occurrence of gastric symptoms
in cases of epigastric hernia, because many authors used the term of ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"When the obturator arises from the epigastric, it is supplied with blood by branches,
... The epigastric receives its supply from the internal mammary and ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1910)
"When the obturator arises from the epigastric it is supplied with blood by branches,
... The epigastric receives its supply from the internal mammary and ..."
5. Organizations by James G. March, Herbert Alexander Simon (1878)
"E IN THE epigastric REGION. 1. Diaphragmatic. 2. epigastric. ... epigastric HERNIA.
In this variety of the disease, the protrusion occurs in or near the ..."
6. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1901)
"epigastric PAIN BY HENRY WALD BETTMAN, MD. CINCINNATI It has long occurred to me
that, as chapters and even volumes are devoted to the subject of headache, ..."
7. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen, Marcus Beck, Raymond Johnson (1895)
"Femoral Artery, giving off, 4, Common Trunk of epigastric aud Obturator Arteries,
... It has the epigastric artery above and to its outer side ; and the ..."
8. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1835)
"2d, From the epigastric on both sides, - 21 35 56 1st, From the hypogastric on
... 191 males, and 157 females ; and from the epigastric or femoral in 152, ..."
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