Definition of Pannicle

1. Noun. (anatomy zoology) A membrane of tissue in the body of a human or animal. ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete medicine) A pannus. ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete rare) The skull. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pannicle

1. a thin vestment [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pannicle

pannages
panne
panned
pannel
panner
panner disease
panners
pannes
panneuritis
panneuritis endemica
pannexin
pannexins
panni
pannick
pannicks
pannicle (current term)
pannicles
pannicular hernia
panniculectomy
panniculitis
panniculus
panniculus carnosus muscle
pannier
panniered
pannierlike
panniers
pannikel
pannikels
pannikin
pannikins

Literary usage of Pannicle

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

1. The Farrier's New Guide: Containing First, the Anatomy of a Horse by William Gibson (1722)
"... pannicle and the faid Membrane, ... of the faid pannicle. It is not one continu'd Covering ..."

2. Arcana cœlestia: or Heavenly mysteries contained in the sacred Scriptures by Emanuel Swedenborg (1863)
"That hereby is signified by truth, viz., a token of consent, appears from the signification of pannicle,* as denoting truth. ..."

3. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1870)
"being attached to the 8th and 9th ribs just behind the rectus thoracicus lateralis, while its superficial fibres become united with the pannicle spreading ..."

4. Lanfrank's "Science of Cirurgie" by Lanfranco, Robert von Fleischhacker (1894)
"... purified bilke pannicle, 4 too «юн, ... The translator misunderstood indigna t и я, and gives us an "indignant pannicle. ..."

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