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Epiploic appendagitis (EA) is an uncommon, benign, self-limiting
inflammatory process of the
epiploic appendices. Other,
older terms for the
process include...
- down from the
liver to the
lesser curvature. The
common anatomical term "
epiploic"
derives from "epiploon", from the Gr**** epipleein,
meaning to
float or...
- The
epiploic appendices (or
appendices epiploicae, or
epiploic appendages, or
appendix epiploica, or
omental appendices) are
small pouches of the peritoneum...
- In
human anatomy, the
omental foramen (
epiploic foramen,
foramen of
Winslow after the
anatomist Jacob B. Winslow, or
uncommonly aditus; Latin: Foramen...
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paracolic gutter is
continuous with the
right and left
subhepatic spaces. The
epiploic foramen allows communication between the
greater sac and the
lesser sac...
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lesser sac via the
omental foramen, also
known as the
foramen of
Winslow or
epiploic foramen,
which is
anteriorly bounded by the
portal triad –
portal vein...
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character works is "where in the
human body is the
Douglas Pouch located?" The
epiploic foramen,
greater sac or
general cavity (red) and
lesser sac, or omental...
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flexure Descending colon Sigmoid colon Continuous taenia coli
haustra epiploic appendix ****
Transverse folds Ampulla Anal
canal **** Anal
columns Anal...
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intestine through a hole, such as a hernia, a
mesenteric rent, or the
epiploic foramen. In a non-strangulating infarction,
blood supply to a
section of...
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epididymis Appendix testis, a
vestigial remnant of the Müllerian duct
Epiploic appendix, one of
several small pouches of fat on the
peritoneum along the...
