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n. The upper middle region of the abdomen.

n. The upper middle region of the abdomen, between the umbilical and hypochondriac regions.

n. The upper part of the abdomen.

n. The upper and median part of the abdomen, especially of its surface, or that part lying over the stomach; the epigastric region, commonly called the pit of the stomach.

n. In entomology, a term used by some of the older entomologists for the lower side of the mesothorax and metathorax in the Coleoptera, Hemiptera, and Orthoptera.

n. Also, sometimes, epigastræum.

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

"No struggle there, on the part of the children, "to share the good man's knee;" but protruded eyes, round as spectacles, and almost as large, fixed alternately upon his flushed face and that absorbing epigastrium which is making their miserable flesh-pot to wane most wretchedly."

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