hypogastric, a. and n.
(hɪpəʊ-, haɪpəʊˈgæstrɪk)
Also 7 hyppo-, hipo-.
[ad. F. hypogastrique (16th c. in Paré), f. hypogastre hypogastrium.]
A. adj. Pertaining to, or situated in, the hypogastrium; hypogastric region = hypogastrium.
| 1656 Blount Glossogr., Hyppogastrick,..belonging to that part of the belly, which reacheth from the Navel to the privy members. 1694 Salmon Bates' Disp. (1713) 207/2 Obstructions of the Mesentery, and hypogastrick Diseases. 1797 Cruikshank in Phil. Trans. LXXXVII. 206 The spermatic and hypogastric arteries were divided. 1835–6 Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 181/1 The hypogastric plexus of nerves. |
† B. n. pl. The hypogastric arteries. Obs. rare.
| 1774 Cooper in Phil. Trans. LXV. 316 The blood passed..through the hypogastrics and umbilicals to the placenta. 1797 Cruikshank ibid. LXXXVII. 207 The spermatics and hypogastrics not cut through. |
So † hypoˈgastrical a. Obs. rare—1.
| 1615 Crooke Body of Man 232 The branches of this Hypogastricall veine..do mingle themselues with the vpper braunches proceeding from the spermaticall. |