Omental tuber

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Omental tuber
1: Head of pancreas
2: Uncinate process of pancreas
3: Pancreatic notch
4: Body of pancreas
5: Anterior surface of pancreas
6: Inferior surface of pancreas
7: Superior margin of pancreas
8: Anterior margin of pancreas
9: Inferior margin of pancreas
10: Omental tuber
11: Tail of pancreas
12: Duodenum
Latin tuber omentale pancreatis, tuber omentale corporis pancreatis
Gray's subject #251 1201
Dorlands/Elsevier t_21/12827549

Where the anterior surface of the pancreas joins the neck there is a well-marked prominence, the tuber omentale, which abuts against the posterior surface of the lesser omentum.

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