Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1456/en

These statements have, up to the present day, given rise in practice to the doubt: does it depend primarily on the peritoneum, or specifically on the mesentery, which constitutes a part of the peritoneum? If the former is the case, the greater omentum (*Omentum majus*) offers itself far more readily and simply for the preparation — less so the lesser omentum (*Omentum minus*), which in a double lamella connects liver and stomach. The greater omentum, likewise a double lamella of the peritoneum, drapes itself like an apron between the abdominal wall of the stomach and the intestinal convolution. It swings down from the stomach to the underside of the abdominal cavity, forms a large loop there, turns back upward again, and covers the intestines like a warming protective shield. Different in nature is the mesentery (*Mesenterium*).

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