Epigastrium vs Hypogastrium - What's the difference?
epigastrium | hypogastrium |
(anatomy) The upper middle region of the abdomen, between the umbilical and hypochondriac regions.
* 1839 , Robley Dunglison, Dunglison's American medical library
An area of the human abdomen residing below the umbilicus.
As nouns the difference between epigastrium and hypogastrium
is that epigastrium is (anatomy) the upper middle region of the abdomen, between the umbilical and hypochondriac regions while hypogastrium is an area of the human abdomen residing below the umbilicus.epigastrium
English
(wikipedia epigastrium)Noun
(epigastria)- In cases of extreme thickening of the coats of the stomach, of a scirrhoid character, where the suffering patients are almost worn out with constant pain, such remedies, applied over the epigastrium , most materially alleviate the distress.
