Definition of "epiploon" []

• The omentum. (noun)

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• "Such women as are immoderately fat, and do not prove with child, in them it is because the epiploon (fat?) blocks up the mouth of the womb, and until it be reduced, they do not conceive."
• "When the liver is filled with water and bursts into the epiploon, in this case the belly is filled with water and the patient dies."
• "Caul: the fatty mass of larvae from which the organs of the future adult were supposed to develop: = epiploon."