epigastric, a.
(ɛpɪˈgæstrɪk)
[f. epigastrium + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to the epigastrium. epigastric speech (nonce-use): ventriloquism.
| 1656–81 Blount Glossogr. s.v. Vein, Epigastrick veins. 1678 in Phillips. 1798 in Phil. Trans. LXXXVIII. 349 The heart..appeared to be situated in the epigastric region of the abdomen. 1804 Abernethy Surg. Observ. 214 To avoid the epigastric artery. 1852 James Pequinillo III. 93 A gentle glow..was comforting the epigastric region. 1860 Milnes in Edin. Rev. Jan. 191 Sidney Rigdon, a man..subject to the strange phenomena of spiritual epilepsy and epigastric speech. 1877 Huxley Anat. Inv. An. vi. 343 The latter is again subdivided into two epigastric lobes. |