panniculusn.

1702 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. (ed. 4) at Scrotum It consists of a skin, a fleshy Panniculus, and the two tunics Erythrois and Elythrois.

1744 A. Monro Ess. Compar. Anat. 9 Some of the older Anatomists reckoned such a Panniculus among the common Teguments of the human Body.

1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. II. (at cited word) Panniculus, or panniculus carnosus, in comparative anatomy, a thin muscular expansion, situated in quadrupeds between the skin and the fat; by means of which they can move their skin, in whole or in part.

1871 Communic. Essex Inst. 6 163 Ectoglutæus arises..in a straight line from the apex of the ilium downward to a point on the tail opposite the origin of the panniculus.

1916 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 207 33 The superficial cervical thymus..begins just medial of the hinder end of the primordium of the submaxillary gland and runs back close above the developing panniculus muscle in the region of the cervical groove.

1965 F. Gerrard Macgregor's Struct. Meat Animals (ed. 2) iii. 62 In cattle, sheep and goats, a strong fold of panniculus runs down to the patella forming the ‘Knee Fold’ or ‘Skin Fold’.

1998 Jrnl. Forensic Sci. 43 427 Panniculus measurements can be used either as a surrogate measurement of morbid obesity or to support BMI calculations.