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Definition of Epigastric fossa

1. Noun. A slight depression in the midline just below the sternum (where a blow can affect the solar plexus).

Medical Definition of Epigastric fossa

1. The slight depression in the midline just inferior to the xiphoid process of the sternum. Synonym: fossa epigastrica, pit of stomach, scrobiculus cordis. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epigastric Fossa

Literary usage of Epigastric fossa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Pneumatic Aspiration of Morbid Fluids: A Medico by Georges Dieulafoy (1873)
"... and it was not till eighteen months later that a tumour appeared in the epigastric fossa. From that time her complexion became slightly icteric, ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"... ends of the seventh costal cartilages, and below the notch, is a triangular depression, the epigastric fossa, in which the xiphoid process can be felt. ..."

3. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1905)
"... dulness as a result of percussing the second right interspace with a hammer, and in a diminution of the same area of dulness when the epigastric fossa ..."

4. Anatomical Atlas of Obstetrics, with Special Reference to Diagnosis and by Oskar Schaeffer (1901)
"The arms are very fat and red ; the skin is wrinkled (see Fig. 24). End of the Ninth Month.—The fundas w in the epigastric fossa, about H in. (3 on. ..."

5. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1832)
"This painful sensation in the epigastric fossa was in other respects generally a very favourable symptom, as it indicated incipient inflammatory reaction, ..."

6. The American Journal of Syphilis (1921)
"There is general fatigue, anorexia, and some tenderness of the liver on palpation of the epigastric fossa. It is noteworthy that the icterus manifests ..."

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