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SECT. XXVII. 



OF THE FUNCTION OF THE OMENTUM. 



398. THE omentum gastro-colicum or magnum* (to 

 distinguish it from the parvum or hepato-gastricum),f 

 is a peculiar process of peritonaeum, arising imme- 

 diately from the peritonaeum of the stomach. 



399. Although there are innumerable continuations 

 of the peritonaeum in the abdomen, and every abdo- 

 minal viscus is so covered by it that on opening the 

 abdomen nothing is found destitute of that membrane, 

 nevertheless, it is afforded in different ways, which 

 may be reduced to classes. 



Over some the peritonaeum is merely extended, or it 

 affords to them only a partial covering, as is the case 

 with respect to the kidneys, rectum, urinary bladder, 

 and in some measure with respect to the pancreas and 

 gall-bladder. 



To some which project into the cavity of the abdo- 

 men although adhering to its parietes, it affords a 

 covering for the greater part of their surface ; v. c. to 

 the liver, spleen, stomach, uterus, and the testes of the 

 very young foetus. 



* Eustachius, tab. ix. 



Haller, Icones. anat. fasc. i. tab. iv. K. M. and the Appendix Colica, which 

 he himself investigated at Gottingen in 1740. ib. R. 



Rob. Steph. Henry, Desivipt. omenti c. icone nova. Hafn. 1748. 4to. 

 f- Eustachius, tab. x. fig. 1 . G. H. 

 Haller, 1. c. Q. 



