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pit of the stomach

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Noun1.pit of the stomach - a slight depression in the midline just below the sternum (where a blow can affect the solar plexus)
epigastric fossa
stomach, tum, tummy, breadbasket - an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
fossa, pit - a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)


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When there, a fresh altercation arose between them, in the course of which Drebber received a blow from the stick, in the pit of the stomach, perhaps, which killed him without leaving any mark.
A Study In Scarlet by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
A good deal more than a year ago, before anything was known of Lydgate's skill, the judgments on it had naturally been divided, depending on a sense of likelihood, situated perhaps in the pit of the stomach or in the pineal gland, and differing in its verdicts, but not the less valuable as a guide in the total deficit of evidence.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
A large bruise was discovered upon the pit of the stomach, produced, apparently, by the pressure of a knee.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
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