panniculus
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Origin of panniculus
< Latin: small piece of cloth, rag, equivalent to pann ( us ) cloth, rag ( cf. pane) + -i- -i- + -culus -cule 1; see panicle
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What was once a flat tummy turned into a full-blown panniculus.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2014
In the carnivora, the panniculus of the trunk is not attached to the supraspinous ligament; it is blended with the same muscle of the opposite side, passing over the spinous region of the vertebral column.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by Cuyer, ?douard
This "panniculus carnosus" had the function of contracting and creasing the skin to chase away the flies, as we see every day in the horse.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
The erection of the hair is, however, aided in some cases, as with that on the head of a man, by the striped and voluntary muscles of the underlying panniculus carnosus.
From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Darwin, Charles
They also occasionally have an associate muscular development in the subcutaneous tissues similar to the panniculus adiposus of quadrupeds, giving them preternatural motile power over the skin.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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