Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s7.t4.17

c7.s7.t4.17

The third stratum (*kalā*) is called the fat-bearing; fat exists in the abdomen of all creatures; it also occurs in the small and large bones as marrow. In the large bones particularly, in the cavity of which it is found, it is called marrow: in all other bones it is called bloody fat. The grease which attaches to clean flesh (in the abdomen) is known as suet: in all other cases the fat is denoted simply grease.