a. Anat. [f. next + -IC.] Of or pertaining to the epiploön or omentum.
1656–81. Blount, Glossogr., s.v. Veine, Dexter Epiploick veine, the second branch of the spleen veine.
1731–6. in Bailey.
1830. R. Knox, Béclard’s Anat., 98. Examples of those prolongations are seen in the omentum and epiploic appendages.
