Usually means: Upper abdomen, below ribs region.
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  1. hypochondrium: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. hypochondrium: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hypochondrium: Vocabulary.com
  4. hypochondrium: Wordnik
  5. hypochondrium: Wiktionary
  6. hypochondrium: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. hypochondrium: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. hypochondrium: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. hypochondrium: Dictionary.com
  10. Hypochondrium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Hypochondrium: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. hypochondrium: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. hypochondrium: Rhymezone
  14. Hypochondrium: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. hypochondrium: FreeDictionary.org
  16. hypochondrium: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. hypochondrium: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hypochondrium: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. hypochondrium: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. hypochondrium: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hypochondrium)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) The upper region of the abdomen, underneath the lower ribs, each side of the epigastrium.

Similar:
epigastrium, pit of the stomach, praecordia, anticardium, abdomen, chest, mesohepar, mesorchium, thorax, episternum, more...

Opposite:
epigastrium, lumbar region, iliac fossa

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Similar:
epigastrium, pit of the stomach, praecordia, anticardium, abdomen, chest, mesohepar, mesorchium, thorax, episternum, more...

Opposite:
epigastrium, lumbar region, iliac fossa



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