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Definition of Omentums
1. omentum [n] - See also: omentum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Omentums
Literary usage of Omentums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1859)
"... either to take no note of the unquestionable fact that we have, even in these
our most mortal and contemptible bodies, stomachs, spleens, and omentums, ..."
2. Folia Haematologica: Internationales Magazin für klinische und (1908)
"... fortwährend lokalen Dehnungen unterworfen, wobei häufig Riese derselben
entstehen, durch welche in dem Gewebe des omentums kleine Blutungen stattfinden. ..."
3. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1912)
"... relaxed peritoneal supports, beginning with the suspensory ligament of the
liver, shortening the gastro-hepatic omentums and the gastro-colic ligament. ..."
4. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1906)
"Coincident adhesions of the gall-bladder to the transverse colon, both omentums,
and possibly to duodenum and mesocolon. 5. Perforation of the gallbladder ..."
5. Local and Regional Anesthesia: With Chapters on Spinal, Epidural by Carroll Woolsey Allen (1920)
"For gastric resections the gastrocolic and lesser omentums must be freely
infiltrated between their folds for an area some little distance beyond the ..."
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