Epigastric

Definitions: Epigastric

Epigastric

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the anterior walls of the abdomen; "epigastric artery".

2. Lying on or over the stomach.

Specialty Definitions: Epigastric

Domain	Definitions
Health	Having to do with the upper middle area of the abdomen. (references)
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Crosswords: Epigastric

English words defined with "epigastric": Epigastrial, epigastric artery, epigastric fossa, Epigastric region, epigastric vein ♦ Hypochondriac region ♦ inferior epigastric vein ♦ Parumbilical, Pit of the stomach ♦ superficial epigastric vein, superior epigastric veins ♦ thoracoepigastric vein ♦ Umbilical region ♦ vena thoracoepigastrica, venae epigastricae superiores. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Epigastric

Domain	Title
Books	Pancreas in Connection With the Epigastric Unit (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Epigastric

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The best definition of biliary pain is that which is relatively severe, episodic, epigastric or right upper quadrant in location, lasting 1 to 5 hours, and often waking the patient at night. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Epigastric

"Epigastric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Epigastric" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	29	64,444

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Expressions: Epigastric

Expressions using "epigastric": Epigastric Arteries ♦ epigastric artery ♦ epigastric fossa ♦ Epigastric region ♦ epigastric vein ♦ inferior epigastric vein ♦ superficial epigastric vein ♦ superior epigastric veins. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Epigastric

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
epigastric hernia	35
epigastric pain	29
epigastric	13
epigastric hernia ventral	5
epigastric hernia symptom	2
abdominal epigastric pain	2
distress epigastric	2
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Modern Translations: Epigastric

Language		Translations for "epigastric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		epigastrik. (various references)

Arabic		‏شرسوفي واقع فوق المعدة. (various references)

Bulgarian		епигастричен. (various references)

Czech		epigastrický. (various references)

Danish		epigastrisk. (various references)

Dutch		epigastrisch. (various references)

Finnish		epigastriumkipu (epigastralgia, epigastric pain), epigastralgia (epigastralgia, epigastric pain). (various references)

French		épigastrique. (various references)

German		epigastrisch. (various references)

Greek		επιγαστραλγία (epigastralgia, epigastric pain). (various references)

Hungarian		gyomortáji. (various references)

Italian		epigastrico. (various references)

Pig Latin		epigastricay

Portuguese		epigástrico, epidiascópio (epidiascope). (various references)

Russian		надчревный, подложечный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		epigastričan. (various references)

Spanish		epigástrico. (various references)

Ukranian		надчеревний. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Epigastric"

Words rhyming with "epigastric" (pronounced 'Ep`i*gas"tric'): Acentric, Agastric, Anelectric, Anthropocentric, Barycentric, Cacogastric, Christocentric, Dielectric, Digastric, Dynamo-electric, Entogastric, gastric, Hepatogastric, homocentric, Hydro-electric, Hypogastric, Idioelectric, Jovicentric, Mesogastric, Metagastric, Monogastric, Neptunicentric, Nitric, Orchestric, Palaestric, Perigastric, Photo-electric, Pneumogastric, Resino-electric, Saturnicentric, Scioptric, Selenecentric, Spectroelectric, Stereoelectric, Stomatogastric, Telelectric, thermoelectric, Trigastric, Urogastric, Veratric, Volta-electric, Yttric. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Epigastric

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-i-p-r-s-t"
	-2 letters: agrestic, cigarets, crispate, ergastic, grapiest, gripiest, paretics, parities, picrates, picrites, piracies, practise, priciest.
	-3 letters: aigrets, airiest, aseptic, cagiest, carpets, cigaret, cristae, episcia, eristic, gaiters, gastric, paretic, pargets, parties, pastier, piaster, piastre, picrate, picrite, pirates, piratic, pitiers, preacts, precast, raciest, satiric, scrapie, seagirt, spacier, spectra, spicate, spicier, stagier, stearic, tipsier, tragics, traipse, triages.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-i-p-r-s-t"
	+2 letters: interspacing.
	+3 letters: pictographies, saprogenicity, transpiercing.
	+4 letters: scintigraphies.
	+5 letters: bacteriophagies, prognosticative, saprogenicities.
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