epigastrium

epigastrium (plural epigastria)

1. (anatomy) The upper middle region of the abdomen, between the umbilical and hypochondriac regions.
   • 1839, Robley Dunglison, Dunglison's American medical library:

     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.

• epigastrial
• epigastralgia
• epigastric