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Rochelle
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pit of stomach

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Where is your "pit" please
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Soroush Ebrahimi
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Re: pit of stomach

Post by Soroush Ebrahimi »

epigastric fossa = Pit of Stomach
The slight depression in the midline below the sternum. Also called pit of the stomach.

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Where is your "pit" please
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Rochelle
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Re: pit of stomach

Post by Rochelle »

Great thanks.
Was just looking at the rubric and realised I didn't know where it was!!!
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Shannon Nelson
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Re: pit of stomach

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AKA "solar plexus".

http://www.answers.com/topic/solar-plexus

Dictionary:
solar plexus. n.
1. The large network of sympathetic nerves and ganglia located in
the peritoneal cavity behind the stomach and having branching tracts
that supply nerves to the abdominal viscera.
2. The pit of the stomach.

Shannon


Robjna
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Re: pit of stomach

Post by Robjna »

Hi Shannon

The solar plexus is not the pit of the stomach, but the epigastric fossa, however, your source described it in a way that could lead you to think that.

The solar plexus, which is a bundle of nerves, is located behind the stomach, and it one is hit in the ‘pit’ of the stomach or epigastric fossa area just below the xiphoid process, the solar plexus which lies way behind it, can be temporarily ‘stunned’, which is quite an event, which you will not forget!

(I have been ‘winded’ both physically and emotionally and the effects which were the same physically are due to a shock to the solar plexus causing the diaphragm to go into a spasm)

Also, when a person gets a feeling of anxiety in the ‘pit of the stomach’ they are really feeling a solar plexus.nervous system response, rather than a digestive one.

So, it is a term often incorrectly used by the layman, to refer to a solar plexus event, but in anatomical terms it is not that at all. So the reference you quoted mentions it as ‘referring’ to the solar plexus, which is badly worded imo.
Robyn
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AKA "solar plexus".

http://www.answers.com/topic/solar-plexus

Dictionary:
solar plexus. n.
1. The large network of sympathetic nerves and ganglia located in the peritoneal cavity behind the stomach and having branching tracts that supply nerves to the abdominal viscera.
2. The pit of the stomach.

Shannon
epigastric fossa = Pit of Stomach
The slight depression in the midline below the sternum. Also called pit of the stomach.

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Where is your "pit" please
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Shannon Nelson
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Re: pit of stomach

Post by Shannon Nelson »

Hi Robyn,
Yes, I understand that distinction, and I think it comes thru in the definition. I did gather that calling the "pit of the stomach" the "solar plexus" is not anatomically accurate :-) --but it is commonly done! E.g., when I was a kid, no one was ever said to take a hit to the "pit of the stomach"; but they did get hit in the "solar plexus." Maybe in other areas the convention was different; I guess it's that difference between technical definition and common one.
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Shannon

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