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Either of two folds of the peritoneum that support the viscera.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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a fold of peritoneum supporting the viscera
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: peritoneum
Narrower terms: greater omentum, gastrocolic omentum, caul, lesser omentum
Borrowed from Latin ōmentum.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
epipló
— fold of the peritoneum
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Catalan:
oment
— fold of the peritoneum
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Catalan:
epíploon
— fold of the peritoneum
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Chinese Mandarin:
網膜 /网膜
(wǎngmó)
— fold of the peritoneum
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Faroese:
netja
— fold of the peritoneum
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Finnish:
vatsapaita
— fold of the peritoneum
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French:
omentum
— fold of the peritoneum
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French:
epiploon
— fold of the peritoneum
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German:
Omentum
— fold of the peritoneum
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Ancient Greek:
ἐπίπλοον
(epíploon)
— fold of the peritoneum
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Ancient Greek:
δέρτρον
(dértron)
— fold of the peritoneum
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Hebrew:
פדר
(peder)
— fold of the peritoneum
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Hungarian:
cseplesz
— fold of the peritoneum
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Irish:
scairt
— fold of the peritoneum
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Italian:
omento
— fold of the peritoneum
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Kazakh:
шарбы
(şarby)
— fold of the peritoneum
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Māori:
taupā
— fold of the peritoneum
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Māori:
matakupenga
— fold of the peritoneum
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Navajo:
akʼahłání
— fold of the peritoneum
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Russian:
са́льник
(sálʹnik)
— fold of the peritoneum
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Sanskrit:
वपा
(vapā)
— fold of the peritoneum
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Spanish:
epiplón
— fold of the peritoneum
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Spanish:
omento
— fold of the peritoneum
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Spanish:
redaño
— fold of the peritoneum