Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Word of the Day: "Panniculus"

While strolling randomly through the internet and Wikipedia today I came across this word of the day: Panniculus

Panniculus: a dense layer of fatty tissue growth, consisting of subcutaneus fat in the lower abdominal area hanging downward.

It is antipose tissue and is basically referring to that wrinkled saggy skin with no hard belly fat-fat that droops creepily from the stomachs of either people that have lost a lot of weight in a short period of time (gastric bypass), or people that just seemed to grow a panniculus one day when other forms of expansion have already been explored. I have really needed a word for that phenomenon.

Be sure to place it in your "unknown parts of the body" dictionary somewhere prior to weenis.

Sadly, I don't have a stock photo of a panniculus but we have all seen them. I'll scoot around the internet and put one up later if I can find a good one because we all know posts with pictures are just better.

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