MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The epiploic appendices (or appendices epiploicae, or epiploic appendages, or appendix epiploica, or omental appendices) are small pouches of the peritoneum filled with fat and situated along the colon, but are absent in the rectum.

Detailed explanation-2: -An epiploic appendix, also known in its plural form as epiploic appendages, appendices epiploicae, or omental appendices, is a fat-filled protrusion of the peritoneum that exists along the surface of the large intestine or bowel.

Detailed explanation-3: -Epiploic appendages, also referred to as Appendices epiploicae, are between 50–100 fatty appendages originating in two rows (anterior and posterior) parallel to the external surface of the three longitudinal muscle bands of the large intestine known as taenia coli.