Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The caul or apron of the intestines; the great omentum; a quadruplicature of the peritoneum, hanging down in front of the intestines from the stomach and transverse colon.
- noun In entomology, the peculiar fatty substance in insects.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) See
omentum .
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- noun The
omentum .
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Examples
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Such women as are immoderately fat, and do not prove with child, in them it is because the epiploon (fat?) blocks up the mouth of the womb, and until it be reduced, they do not conceive.
Aphorisms 2007
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When the liver is filled with water and bursts into the epiploon, in this case the belly is filled with water and the patient dies.
Aphorisms 2007
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Caul: the fatty mass of larvae from which the organs of the future adult were supposed to develop: = epiploon.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Berchon 6.268 mentions double perforation of the diaphragm with hernia of the epiploon.
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Belin 2.236 mentions a stab-wound in a pregnant woman from which a considerable portion of the epiploon protruded.
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Belin mentions a stab-wound in a pregnant woman from which a considerable portion of the epiploon protruded.
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Berchon mentions double perforation of the diaphragm with hernia of the epiploon.
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After division of the epiploon section was made at the pylorus and at the cardiac extremities; the portions removed represented seven-eighths of the stomach.
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A little mucus mixed with blood in the mouth and on the lips, the left lateral sinus, the vessels of the pia mater gorged with blood, serous effusion in the lateral ventricle same side, the choroid pleurus infiltrated and strewed with hydatides, the pleura adhering almost entirely to the substance of the lungs; sanguineous engorgement of the right lung, as well as of the pleura corresponding, but of a purulent nature in this viscera; a little fatty polypus in the right ventricle of the heart, which otherwise was in a natural state; emaciation of the epiploon, -- pathological state of this membrane such as it presents after a long sickness.
hernesheir commented on the word epiploon
The caul or apron of the intestines. -- Century Dictionary.
September 15, 2011
ry commented on the word epiploon
The Century definition reads like poetry
October 9, 2019
ruzuzu commented on the word epiploon
I have a list of those! (See found-poetry.)
October 10, 2019