hypochondrium

The liver is found in the right hypochondrium.

The region named the right hypochondrium exists anatomically, but is almost totally under the chest wall.

The pain typically begins in the abdomen and often radiates to the hypochondrium or the groin.

In the emergency department he was hypotensive and had pain in the left hypochondrium.

He then pressed his fingers on the patient's hypochondrium region (the area below the diaphragm), sometimes holding his hands there for hours.

The latus is a region of the abdomen between the hypochondrium and inguinal region.

The hypochondrium is the upper part of the abdomen dorsal to the lowest ribs of the thorax.

De duumviratu hypochondrium (Leipzig, 1689).

(The term "hypochondrium" derives from Greek and literally means the region below the "cartilage" or "breast bone.")

A tumor can expand the size of the liver several times, and consequent stretching of its capsule can cause aching pain in the right hypochondrium.

The ancient Greeks used the word hypochondria to describe symptoms of digestive discomfort, combined with melancholy, that they thought arose from the spleen and other organs in the hypochondrium, the region under the rib cage.

In acute pancreatitis, the sentinel loop is usually seen in left hypochondrium, while in acute cholecystitis, it is seen in the right hypochondrium.

It passes downward through the left hypochondrium and lumbar regions, along the lateral border of the left kidney and end at the lower left part of the abdomen where it is continues as the sigmoid colon.

This physical point was in fact in the hypochondrium (the upper region of the abdomen, marked by the lower ribs), now usually linked to the solar plexus but known in ninetheen century Germany as die "Herzgrube": the heart cavity.