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lesser omentum

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noun

Anatomy.

  1. an omentum attached to the stomach, part of the duodenum, and part of the liver and supporting the hepatic vessels.

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Into the ventral mesentery the liver grows as diverticula from the duodenum, so that some of the mesentery remains as the falciform ligament of the liver and some as the lesser omentum.

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