Word Meanings - OMENTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to an omentum or the omenta.

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• OMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to an omentum or the omenta.
• OMENTUM
  A free fold of the peritoneum, or one serving to connect viscera, support blood vessels, etc.; an epiploön. Note: The great, or gastrocolic, omentum forms, in most mammals, a great sac, which is attached to the stomach and transverse colon, is
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• MOMENTARILY
  Every moment; from moment to moment. Shenstone.
• FOMENTATION
  The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors. The lotion applied to a diseased part. 2. Excitation; instigation; encouragement. Dishonest
• LOMENTACEOUS
  Of the nature of a loment; having fruits like loments.
• MOMENTALLY
  For a moment.
• MOMENTARY
  Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang. This momentary joy breeds months of pain. Shak.
• HYOMENTAL
  Between the hyoid bone and the lower jaw, pertaining to them; suprahyoid; submaxillary; as, the hyomental region of the front of the neck.
• EQUIMOMENTAL
  Having equal moments of inertia. Note: Two bodies or systems of bodies are said to be equimomental when their moments of inertia about all straight lines are equal each to each. Equimomental cone of a given rigid body, a conical surface that has
• MOMENTARINESS
  The state or quality of being momentary; shortness of duration.
• MOMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to moment or momentum. (more info) 1. Lasting but a moment; brief. Not one momental minute doth she swerve. Breton. 2. Important; momentous.
• MOMENTANEOUS; MOMENTANY
  Momentary. Hooker. "Momentany as a sound." Shak.
• MOMENTUM
  The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity; impetus. 2. Essential element, or constituent element. I shall state the several momenta of the distinction in separate
• TOMENTUM
  The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach