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plural pannicles
(anatomy, zoology) A membrane of tissue in the body of a human or animal.
(obsolete, medicine) A pannus.
(obsolete, rare) The skull. quotations
To him he turned, and with rigour fell / Smote him so rudely on the Pannikell, / That to the chin he cleft his head in twaine [...].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie