gastrocolic omentum

1. 1.

   part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines

   Synonymsgreater omentumcaul

   Broaderomentum

Questions about gastrocolic omentum

What does gastrocolic omentum mean?

gastrocolic omentum means "part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines".

What is another word for gastrocolic omentum?

Close synonyms include greater omentum, caul. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gastrocolic omentum a common word?

gastrocolic omentum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.