Also 6 epipleon. [mod.L., a. Gr. ἐπίπλοον, f. ἐπιπλέειν to sail or float on: the epiploön floating as it were on the intestines.]
1. The caul or omentum, a fatty membrane enwrapping the intestines.
1541. R. Copland, Guydon’s Quest. Chirurg. What is Epypleon, and wherof is it composed?
1667. Phil. Trans., II. 552. The Epiploon, or the Double Membrane, which covers the Entrals of Animals, and is fill’d with Fat.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, 4. The curtain-like omentum or epiploon.
2. Entom. (See quots.)
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. 115. What some regard as a real liver, others look upon as an epiploon or caul. Ibid. (1828), IV. xliv. 219. Chiefly the epiploon or fat of the larva.
1834. McMurtrie, Cuvier’s Anim. Kingd., 322. The epiploon or corps graisseux.
