What's the difference between epigastrium and hypogastrium?
Epigastrium
Definition:
(n.) The upper part of the abdomen.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fulminant collection of pseudopolyps was palable in the epigastrium on physical exam and caused a partial obstruction to the retrograde flow of barium.
(2) The carrier state was accompanied by intermittent pain in the epigastrium, diminished appetite, diarrhoea etc.
(3) A 45-year-old man was reported who experienced rapid rhythmic nodding of his head and equally rapid contractions in his epigastrium, which participated by certain psychic situations.
(4) The patient, a 33 year old male, had suffered from swelling of the chest, neck and face for 4 months; palpitation, chest and epigastrium pain, cough and yellowish sputum for 10 days before admission into our hospital.
(5) Within a short time the pain shifted to the right epigastrium, became more intensive (with deterioration during inspiration) and concurrently the patient developed marked muscular tension in the whole right upper abdominal quadrant.
(6) Five, however, later had return of pain, but only to the right epigastrium.
(7) A palpable, hard, uneven mass was found in the epigastrium.
(8) Whole-body scanning, carried out in connection with administration of radioiodine for ablation of remaining thyroid tissue, disclosed an unexpected area of increased uptake in the epigastrium.
(9) For several weeks a 27-year-old man had experienced a pressure sensation and noticed a spherical area of resistance in the epigastrium.
(10) A longitudinal scan from an intercostal space in the mid-axillary line and a right-anterior-transverse scan from the intercostal space were useful in displaying the right adrenal, and an anterior-transverse scan from the epigastrium was also useful in showing the left adrenal.
(11) The majority of bruitswere in the epigastrium, mainly because of a high incidence of celiac artery stenosis usually of the extrinsic compression type.
(12) Bleeding from sinuses in the chest wall or epigastrium or repeated hemoptysis were important clinical clues.
(13) A significant disproportionate effect on the epigastrium, predicted by the choice of acupuncture points, was found for tolerances but not thresholds.
(14) US found dilated intestinal loops and a septate cystic mass in epigastrium.
(15) The impedance of the epigastrium to a 4 mA, 100 KHz AC current increases while liquids of low electrical conductivity are being drunk.
(16) In the superior mesenteric artery syndrome which may complicate extensive burns, a systolic murmur may be heard in the epigastrium when the patient is supine but not when he is prone.
(17) Typical symptoms are acute gastro-intestinal bleeding, chronic gastric pain and palpable tumour in the epigastrium with relatively good general condition.
(18) Out of oxyfedrine++ side effects known up to the present (mild agitation, stupor, heat sensation, pains in the epigastrium++, skin allergy) 24 cases of ageusia appearing usually after 4 weeks of treatment with oxyfedrine++ were presented.
(19) The authors found with neonatal ultrasound screening a cyst in the epigastrium sized 45 x 18 x 36 mm.
(20) On grounds of the case history, the presence of a murmur in the epigastrium, and symptoms of involvement of other arteries it may be assumed that the abdominal abnormalities are of vascular origin.
Hypogastrium
Definition:
(n.) The lower part of the abdomen.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most common procedure which caused hernia was a median incision in 299 (51.6%), followed by an incision of the right hypogastrium for appendectomy in 211 (36.4%).
(2) Moreover she had a ;moon face', hypertension, a ;buffalo hump', and livid striae of the loins and hypogastrium.
(3) In some rats, sedation, salivation, soil at hypogastrium, rale and emaciation were detected from the next day of oral administration.
(4) In no case was pneumaturia observed, and the main symptoms displayed were those of the cystitis type together with pain in the hypogastrium and macroscopic hematuria.
(5) To correct the most common problem, the buried penis, involves removal of localized deposits of fat from the hypogastrium with open surgical or closed suction techniques followed by anchoring of the skin of the base of the penis to the periosteum of the pubis.
(6) A common pattern affects groins, genitalia, hypogastrium and hands, and are produced when fireworks ignite in the pockets of the patient's trousers.
(7) Four trocars are utilized; one is placed at the level of the umbilicus, one in the right flank, another in the left flank, and one in the hypogastrium.
(8) Malignant testicular tumors (30 patients) were associated with enlarged outline of the affected scrotal side with a temperature difference of 1.2 degrees C and more, as compared to the normal side, persistent hyperthermia at repeated examinations, small- and medium-sized hyperthermic foci over the projected liver, lungs, mediastinum, meso- and hypogastrium, lumbar region and in the area of lateral neck surface in cases of metastatic growth.
(9) Dysmenorrhoea and pain in the hypogastrium disappeared completely in all patients except one.
(10) Physical examination revealed a visible aand palpable mass in the hypogastrium.
(11) The authors describe the development of the disease in a 15-year-old girl hospitalized on account of temperatures and vague pain in the right hypogastrium.
(12) In all of them and regardless of the approach used (inguinal or scrotal), suspension of bags to hypogastrium using suture traction was performed by Oesterling technique in combination to Joseph and O'Boyle's technique.
(13) The main characteristics are an inflammatory symptomatology, especially in the right hypogastrium, with periodic recurrences.
(14) The animal is placed in the Trendelenburg position and three trocars are inserted, in a position which corresponds to that of the umbilicus in humans (through which a laparoscope is passed), in the hypogastrium and in the hypochondrium of the corresponding side.
(15) Sarcomas more frequently arose in the posterior fields (buttock or sacral region in nine patients) than in the anterior (pubis, hypogastrium-four patients).
(16) Radiation in the dose of 36 Gy was given over the left hypogastrium and paraaortic region in 36 Gy each.
(17) Sweat was collected (a) from the face of 27 healthy men and 26 healthy women (b) from the face, chest, armpits, shoulders, back, upper part of the abdomen, hypogastrium, forearms and thighs of the same individual and (c) from the face of the same individual at different times.
(18) Common presenting manifestations are vomiting, hematemesis, upper abdominal pain, and palpable abdominal mass within the left hypogastrium.
(19) After placing the operating table in the Trendelenburg position, the trocars are inserted through the incisions at the level of the umbilicus, the right and left flanks and the hypogastrium.
(20) The pain was felt in the hypogastrium in 40%, in one or both iliac fossae in 31%, and in the rectum in 21%; the other 8% felt pain in the back or elsewhere and there were no significant differences between clinical groups.