Definition of Epiploons

1. epiploon [n] - See also: epiploon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epiploons

epiplastra
epiplastron
epipleural
epiplexis
epiplo-
epiploa
epiploce
epiplocele
epiploic
epiploic appendage
epiploic appendix
epiploic branches
epiploic foramen
epiploic tags
epiploon
epiploons (current term)
epiplopexy
epipodia
epipodial
epipodiale
epipodialia
epipodite
epipodites
epipodium
epipolic
epipolism
epipolized
epipteric
epipteric bone
epipterics

Literary usage of Epiploons

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1852)
"In order to meet this necessity, Nature doubtless wished that the veins of the mesentery, of the epiploons, of the pancreas, of the gall-bladder, ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1837)
"The epiploons had disappeared, and the whole of the peritoneum seemed to have been used to cover this abnormal production, on the surface of which it formed ..."

3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1813)
"The epiploons exhibited nothing but very Ihin membranous skins destitute of fat. (ban it usually observed in other quadrupeds. The distribution and figure ..."

4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1821)
"The epiploons exhibited nothing but very thin membranous skins destitute of fat. The distribution and figure of the stomachs were the same as in the camel. ..."

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