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