epigastrium

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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

"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

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.

The one pole should be connected with the head-electrode, the other, by means of the surface board, applied alternately, to the epigastrium, chiefly, and to the hypogastric region.

From The Electric Bath by Schweig, George M.

Slight pain in epigastrium, coming and going at intervals of a few minutes.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock