epigastrium

1. 1.

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

   Broaderarea

Other forms of epigastrium

plural

epigastria

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about epigastrium

What does epigastrium mean?

epigastrium means "the region lying on or over the stomach (just below the sternum)".

How many syllables are in epigastrium?

epigastrium has 5 syllables: e-pi-ga-stri-um. The stress falls on "ga".

Is epigastrium a common word?

epigastrium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.