Epigastrium

Definition: Epigastrium

Epigastrium

Noun

1. The region lying on or over the stomach (just below the sternum).

Etymology: Epigastrium \Ep`i*gas"tri*um\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Epigastrium

English words defined with "epigastrium": hypochondrium ♦ Praecordia. (references)

Specialty definitions using "epigastrium": epigastralgia. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Epigastrium" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (epigastrium), Czech (epigastrium).

"Epigastrium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Epigastrium" is used about 2 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
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

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.

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

Arabic		‏المنطقة الشرسوفية ذلك الجزء فوق المعدة. (various references)

Bulgarian		надкоремна област, епигастрична област. (various references)

Czech		epigastrium. (various references)

Danish		epigastrium, oevre abdomen. (various references)

Dutch		epigastrium, regio epigastrica. (various references)

Finnish		sydänala (pit of the stomach). (various references)

French		étage supérieur de l'abdomen, épigastrocèle. (various references)

German		Oberbauch, Druesenbauch. (various references)

Greek		επιγάστριο. (various references)

Hungarian		gyomortáj. (various references)

Italian		epigastrio. (various references)

Pig Latin		epigastriumay

Portuguese		epigástrio, epigástrico. (various references)

Romanian		epigastru. (various references)

Russian		эпигастрий, надчревье. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		epigastrijum. (various references)

Spanish		epigastrio. (various references)

Turkish		üst karın duvarı. (various references)

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

Words rhyming with "epigastrium" (pronounced 'Ep`i*gas"tri*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-i-m-p-r-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: grumpiest, septarium, umpirages.
	-3 letters: airtimes, apterium, epigrams, gimpiest, grapiest, grimiest, gripiest, imputers, magister, migrates, muriates, parities, primages, primates, purities, ragtimes, seriatim, sterigma, stumpage, stumpier, tempuras, tiramisu, umpirage, upstream.
	-4 letters: aigrets, airiest, airtime, amities, armpits, atriums, augites, epigram, gaiters, gamiest, gimpier, gisarme, grampus, guimpes, guitars, gustier, gutsier, imagers, imagist, imarets, impairs, imparts, impaste, imperia.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-i-m-p-r-s-t-u"
	+5 letters: hyperstimulating, superstimulating.
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