epigastrium

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"Gnawing hunger pain in pains the of ulcer.'' epigastrium not Gurgling unlike in the the intestines "and sometimes a mild watery diarrhea.

From Time Magazine Archive

If you will refer to any recent authority on the subject you will find that the pain of appendicitis starts in the epigastrium, which is in the midline and above the navel.

From Time Magazine Archive

In such cases there is not only spinal tenderness, but very usually also a well-marked tenderness in the epigastrium and the left hypochondrium, the trepied hysterique of Briquet.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.

She catches glimpses of it over the fence or through the pickets, and her imagination or epigastrium is inflamed.

From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various

In conjunction with general and local bleeding, fomentations were had recourse to in almost every case, and applied to the epigastrium in the form of poultices, or flannels wrung out of warm emollient decoctions.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin