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1 omentum
I.Lit.A.In gen.:B.ast illi tremat omento popa venter,
Pers. 6, 74.—In partic.1.The membrane which encloses the bowels, the caul, Cels. 4, 1; Plin. 11, 37, 80, § 204.—2.The bowels, Pers. 2, 47:II.porci,
Juv. 13. 116.—Transf., any skin which envelops an internal part of the body, a membrane, Macr. S. 7, 9; of the meninges, id. ib. 7, 9.
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