Crossword-Solution: OMENTUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Omentum | n. | A free fold of the peritoneum, or one serving to connect viscera, support blood vessels, etc.; an epiploon. |
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| Peritoneal fold | 1 answer |
| caul | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EACEZM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OMENTUM (5)
There was a wound consisting of a ragged rent from above the os pubis, extending obliquely to the left and upward, through which protruded the great omentum, the descending and transverse colon, most of the small intestines, as well as the pyloric extremity of the stomach.
The intestines remained outside of the body for two hours, and the great omentum was carefully spread out over the chest to prevent interference with the efforts to return the intestines.
Harris cites the instance of a woman of thirty, a multipara, six months pregnant, who was gored by a cow; her intestines and omentum protruded through the rip and the uterus was bruised.
Wetmore of Illinois saw a woman who in the summer of 1860, when about six months pregnant, was gored by a cow, and the large intestine and the omentum protruded through the wound.
Rein speaks of the removal of an enormous echinococcus cyst of the omentum without interruption of pregnancy.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1982).