panniculus

Latin [Term?], diminutive of pannus (“cloth”).

panniculus (countable and uncountable, plural panniculi)

1. (anatomy) A dense layer of fatty tissue growth, consisting of subcutaneous fat in the lower abdominal area.
2. A thin, sheet-like investment.

• pannus
• panniculus adiposus
• panniculus carnosus

• sipunculan

pannus (“cloth”) +‎ -culus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /panˈni.ku.lus/, [pänˈnɪkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /panˈni.ku.lus/, [pänˈniːkulus]

panniculus m (genitive panniculī); second declension

1. a piece of cloth, a small rag
2. (Late Latin, medicine) membrane

Second-declension noun.

• “panniculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “panniculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “panniculus”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011