a. [f. EPIGASTRIUM + -IC.]

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  Of or pertaining to the epigastrium. Epigastric speech (nonce-use): ventriloquism.

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1656–81.  Blount, Glossogr., s.v. Vein, Epigastrick veins.

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1678.  in Phillips.

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1798.  in Phil. Trans., LXXXVIII. 349. The heart … appeared to be situated in the epigastric region of the abdomen.

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1804.  Abernethy, Surg. Obs., 214. To avoid the epigastric artery.

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1852.  G. P. R. James, Pequinillo, III. 93. A gentle glow … was comforting the epigastric region.

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1860.  Milnes, in Edin. Rev. Jan., 191. Sidney Rigdon, a man … subject to the strange phenomena of spiritual epilepsy and epigastric speech.

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1877.  Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., vi. 343. The latter is again subdivided into two epigastric lobes.

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