Per it end i neum

The ti ue surrounding the tendons like a sheath. on its under aspect, and pa on, as the gastrohepatic omentum, to the le er curvature of the stomach. Separating here, they embrace the stomach, and, meeting again at its greater curvature, pa down, like an apron, in front of the small intestine, forming the great omentum. At the lower edge of the latter they are reflected upward as far as the transverse colon, which they enclose, meeting again at the back of the colon, and proceeding to the spine as the transverse me so colon. Here the two layers diverge; the upper ascends in front of the pancreas to the under surface of the diaphragm, the starting-point. The lower layer is reflected from the spine, over the small intestines, and back again to the spine, to form the mesentery. From the root of the mesentery it pa es into the pelvis, invests the upper part of the rectum, and is thence reflected on the bladder, forming between the two the recto-vesical pouch. In the female it is reflected from the rectum to the upper part of the vagina, and thence Per i ten on (per-it-ef-re-on). Synonym of Trephine.