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fold is slung over the stomach, in much the same way as we sling 

 a towel over a clothesline, and covers it before and behind. The 

 anterior and posterior folds unite at the lower border of the 



Fig. 151. — The Stomach and Intestines, Fkont View, the Great Omen- 

 tum HAVING been removed, AND THE LiVER TURNED UP AND TO THE RiGHT. 



The dotted Hue shows the normal position of the anterior border of the liver. 

 (Gerrish.) 



stomach and form an apron-like appendage, the omentum, which 

 covers the whole of the intestines. 



(2) The muscular coat of the stomach consists of three layers 

 of unstriped muscular tissue : an outer, formed of longitudinal 

 fibres ; a middle, of circular ; and an inner, of less well-developed, 

 obliquely disposed fibres. 



