Region

regio, a region. One of the artificial and conventional divisions of the body, as the Abdominal R. See Abdomen , and Pectoral R. R., Acromial, the parts near the acromion. R., Anal, pertaining to the anus. R., Aulic, the area about the aula. R., Auricular, the parts near the ear. R., Axillary, a region upon the lateral aspect of the thorax, extending from the axilla to a line drawn from the lower border of the mammary region to that of the scapular region. R., Basilar, the region at the base of the skull. R., Brachial, the region of the arms. R. of Broca, the third left frontal convolution of the brain. R., Central Gray, the medullary substance of the cerebellar hemispheres. R., Cervical, the parts around the neck. R., Ciliary. I. The zone of the eyeball in which the ciliary body is situated. 2. The cludes the surface of the abdomen covering the right lobe of the liver, the gall-bladder, the hepatic flexure of the colon, and part of the right kidney; the left that covering the spleen, the splenic end of the stomach, the extremity of the pancreas, the splenic flexure of the colon, and part of the left kidney. R., Hypogastric, that part of the abdominal surface between a horizontal line drawn through the anterior superior crests of the ilia above and on either side by vertical lines drawn through the center of Poupart's ligament. It overlies the small intestines, the bladder in children and in adults when distended, the uterus during pregnancy, sometimes the vermiform appendix, the cecum, and the sigmoid flexure of the colon. R., Iliac, the part of the i d containing the cilia. R., Clavicular, the area about the clavicle. R., Costal, the lateral chest are a. R., Diaphragmatic, the region of the diaphragm. R., Epicranial, the region above the cranium. R., Epigastric, the region over the stomach bounded laterally by two vertical lines pa ing through the middle of Pqupart's ligament; above by a horizontal line touching the lower margin of the sternum, and below by a horizontal line touching the lowest part, of the Supra clavicular 2. Clavicular 3. Mammary 4. Epigastric 5. I'mbilthorax, and inical region, 6. region. Hypogastric region, region. Infra-axillary region. region. 9. Hypochondria 7. Axillary region. Lumbar region. ac region. cluding the region. loric end and middle of stomach, the left lobe of the liver, the region of the ilium. See also A'., Inguinal.