a. [f. EPIGASTRIUM + -IC.]
Of or pertaining to the epigastrium. Epigastric speech (nonce-use): ventriloquism.
165681. 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. Obs., 214. To avoid the epigastric artery.
1852. G. P. R. 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. Anim., vi. 343. The latter is again subdivided into two epigastric lobes.