Townsend plan. see under Townsend, Francis Everett Townsend, Francis Everett, 1867â1960, American reformer, leader of an old-age pension movement, b. Fairbury, Ill., grad. Univ. of Nebraska medical school, 1903. He practiced medicine in several Western states before he settled (1919) at Long Beach, Calif......
Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: - 1 oma(Suffix) A suffix forming nouns indicating disease or morbidity. - 2 oma(Suffix) A suffix forming nouns indicating tumors or masses, especially cancerous ones.
omentum oÂ·menÂ·tum (Å-mÄn'tÉm) n. pl. oÂ·menÂ·tums or oÂ·menÂ·ta (-tÉ) One of the folds of the peritoneum that connect the stomach with other abdominal organs, especially the greater omentum or the lesser omentum. The American HeritageÂ® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright Â© 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company.