epigastrium

English edit

English Wikipedia has an article on:

epigastrium

Wikipedia

Epigastrium

epigastrium (plural epigastria)

(anatomy) The upper middle region of the abdomen, between the umbilical and hypochondriac regions.
- 1839, Robley Dunglison, Dunglison's American medical library:
  In cases of extreme thickening of the coats of the stomach, of a scirrhoid character, where the suffering patients are almost worn out with constant pain, such remedies, applied over the epigastrium, most materially alleviate the distress.

the upper middle region of the abdomen