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epiploic appendices

epiploic appendices is the plural of epiploic appendix.

Meaning of epiploic appendix

Noun

epiploic appendix (plural epiploic appendices)

  1. Any of the small pouches of the peritoneum that are filled with fat and situated along the colon, but absent in the rectum.

Questions about epiploic appendices

What is epiploic appendices the plural of?
Epiploic appendices is the plural of epiploic appendix.

Words near epiploic appendices in the dictionary

  1. epiploa
  2. epiploce
  3. epiplocele
  4. epiploceles
  5. epiploic
  6. epiploic appendices
  7. epiploic appendix
  8. epiploitis
  9. epiploon
  10. epiploons
  11. epiplopexies

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