Crossword clues for hypochondrium
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hypochondrium \Hy`po*chon"dri*um\, n.; pl. L. Hypochondria, E. Hypochondriums. [L., fr. Gr. ?, from ? under the cartilage of the breastbone; ? under + ? cartilage.] (Anat.) Either of the hypochondriac regions.
Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) The upper region of the abdomen, below the lower ribs, each side of the epigastrium.
WordNet
n. the upper region of the abdomen just below the lowest ribs on either side of the epigastrium
[also: hypochondria (pl)]
Wikipedia
In anatomy, the division of the abdomen into regions can employ a nine-region scheme, in which the hypochondrium is the upper part of the abdomen on either side, inferior to (below) the thorax, in the area of the lower ribs.
The liver is in the right hypochondrium; the spleen and much of the stomach are in the left hypochondrium. The epigastrium intervenes.
Usage examples of "hypochondrium".
Gaetano-Nocito, cited by Philipeaux, has the history of a taken with a great pain in the right hypochondrium, and from which issued subsequently fetal bones and a mass of macerated embryo.
Massie cites an instance of gunshot wound of the right hypochondrium, with penetration and protrusion of the liver.
Deckers tells of a gentleman who was wounded in the right hypochondrium, the ball being taken thirty years afterward from the knee.
Behind her new Saints Louis and Paul there would be not only Science purifying Religion and being purified by it, but hypochondria, melancholia, cowardice, stupidity, cruelty, muckraking curiosity, knowledge without wisdom, and everything that the eternal soul in Nature loathes, instead of the virtues of which St Catherine was the figure head.
Prostatorrhea, spermatorrhea, impotency, hypochondria, and general debility of the generative organs, arise from sexual excesses.
Aunt Celly would have been lying down indulging in her daily bout of hypochondria, and Aunt Tia would have been reading aloud to her or talking baby talk to the pittins.
Anxiety, hypochondria, displacency, melancholia, costive, delicate stomachs - the ills of the city merchant increased tenfold.
Third is somatic, which involves a kind of hyper awareness of the body--anorexia nervosa or hypochondria, for example.
He informs me that they may constantly be seen in energetic action in cases of melancholia, and especially of hypochondria.