单词 | omentum |
释义 | omentumn.α. late Middle English– omentum. β. 1500s oment. Anatomy and Veterinary Medicine. A fold of the peritoneum connecting the stomach with the liver, spleen, colon, etc. Also called caul, epiploon.Three divisions of the omentum are commonly recognized: the greater (or gastrocolic) omentum; the lesser (or gastrohepatic) omentum; and the gastrosplenic omentum: see under the first elements. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > internal organs > cavities occupied by internal organs > [noun] > abdomen > membranes of neteOE caul1382 siphac1398 zirbusa1400 womb cloutc1400 mesentery?a1425 omentum?a1425 peritoneum?a1425 paunch clout1440 epiploön?1541 mesenterium?1541 mesaraeum1543 rim1565 kell1578 rind1585 belly-piece1591 coif1597 cell1607 reticulum1615 mesocolon1684 mesogaster1807 mesocaecum1835 ruffle1846 mesogastrium1848 mid-gut1875 mesovarium1882 mesocyst1890 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 15v (MED) Þise y-seye, it is to go to þe partiez contened withyn þe wombe wher first comeþ to zirbus, þat of G. is seid omentum. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 41 (MED) Wherfore it schewiþ þat zirbus ys cold and drie by cause of þe tweye membris of whom he is compouned, and þou schalt vndirstonde þat zirbus & Omentum is al oon þing. 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. Cxvi The oment or siphac which is a pellicle the whiche doth compasse and doth bere vp the guttes. 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 706 Examining particularly, whether the Omentum be the Seat of the Hypochondriacal winds, and the Sink of the body? 1713 W. Cheselden Anat. Humane Body iii. v. 100 Omentum, or Cawl, is a fine Membrane larded with Fat, somewhat like Net-work. 1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 105 Wounds of the omentum are of the mortal kind..the effused blood, falling into the cavity of the abdomen, will kill the patient. 1843 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1842 82 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (27th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Doc. 109) II Lard offered for sale in the market for domestic use..is prepared from the adipose matter of the omentum and mesentery of the hog. 1903 J. J. McGrath Surg. Anat. & Operative Surg. i. 13 In resecting portions of the alimentary canal the mesentery or omentum that carries the blood-supply to the parts must be tied off. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xx. 495 Recent attempts to provide a collateral circulation to the middle-aged heart by stitching the omentum to it have met with some success. 1994 N.Y. Times Mag. 27 Nov. 55/1 The [baboon] embryo had attached itself to the omentum, a fatty tissue loaded with blood vessels that hangs down in front of the intestines like an apron. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425 |
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