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EPIGASTRIUM (epigastria)
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Irregular inflected form: epigastria
Dictionary entry overview: What does epigastrium mean?
• EPIGASTRIUM (noun)
The noun EPIGASTRIUM has 1 sense:
1. the region lying on or over the stomach (just below the sternum)
Familiarity information: EPIGASTRIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The region lying on or over the stomach (just below the sternum)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("epigastrium" is a kind of...):
area; region (a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve)
Derivation:
epigastric (lying on or over the stomach)
epigastric (of or relating to the anterior walls of the abdomen)
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