greater omentum
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0005448
The greater omentum (also the great omentum, omentum majus, gastrocolic omentum, epiploön, or, especially in animals, caul) is a large fold of peritoneum that hangs down from the stomach, and extends from the stomach to the posterior abdominal wall after associating with the transverse colon. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_omentum ]
Term info
- SCTID:362711003
- EHDAA2:0000720
- EMAPA:18660
- VHOG:0000356
- Wikipedia:Greater_omentum
- CALOHA:TS-2073
- UMLS:C0230259 (ncithesaurus:Greater_Omentum)
- EV:0100085
- NCIT:C32697
- FMA:9580
- MA:0003128
- EHDAA:6071
A filmy, transparent double fold of the peritoneum, draping the transverse colon and coils of the small intestine. It is attached along the greater curvature of the stomach and the first part of the duodenum. [TFD][VHOG]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Gray1035.png
omentum majus, great omentum, epiploic, epiplooen, omentectomy, epiploön, caul, gastrocolic omentum, epiploon
uberon
UBERON:0005448
Greater omentum
Term relations
- anatomical structure
- omentum
- develops from some dorsal mesentery
- develops from some dorsal mesogastrium
- attached to some greater curvature of stomach
- located in some intraembryonic coelom