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(From
upon, or above, and
the stomach). The upper fore part of the belly; reaching from the pit of the stomach to an imaginary line above the navel, supposed to be drawn from one extremity of the last of the false ribs to the other. Its sides are called hypochondria, and are covered by the false ribs, betwixt which lies the epigastrium.
(From
to generate anew).
Sometimes it signifies an adventitious symptom; at others any thing added, as a fur on the tongue.
(From
to succeed, or supervene). Those symptoms which naturally succeed, or may be expected in the progress of a disease (Galen); but Foesius considers them as accessions of some new affection, which never happened but in stubborn and malignant disease. See Epiphaenomena.
(From
upon, and
the tongue; from a less leaf growing above a larger in the shape of a tongue). See Laurus Alexandrina.
(From
and
the aperture
(From
). An instrument mentioned by Paracelsus for elevating the eye lids, resembling in shape the epiglottis.
(From '
and
the buitock ).
The superior part of the buttock.
(From
and
a knee). See
Patella.
(From
to proceed upon).
See Epicyema.
(From
and
the knee). The muscles inserted into the knees.
(From
and
an apple). See
(From
and
to divide). In
Galen it is an epithet of the difference of pulse with respect to the inequality of their time in beating. 4 K2
(From
and
a knee). Sec
Patella.
 
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