"banana fold" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: banana folds [plural]
Etymology: From the resemblance of this fold of flesh to the shape of a banana. Head templates: {{en-noun}} banana fold (plural banana folds)
  1. A long crease below the buttock that results from a deposit of fatty tissue.
    Sense id: en-banana_fold-en-noun--32osqOi Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From the resemblance of this fold of flesh to the shape of a banana.",
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          "ref": "1999, Luiz Sergio Toledo, Refinements in Facial and Body Contouring, page 137",
          "text": "Patients with good skin tone will be treated with superficial liposuction of the lower third of the buttock and the \"banana fold,\" combined with fat injection of the gluteal depresion.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Gregory R. D. Evans, Operative Plastic Surgery, page 95",
          "text": "interior buttocks, banana fold, and posterior thigh are suctioned through both trochanteric and tnfragluteal crease entry sites.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Melvin A. Shiffman, Alberto Di Giuseppe, Liposuction: Principles and Practice, page 535",
          "text": "With the patient in the lateral position, the flanks and lateral thighs, the gluteal fold, and the “banana” fold are treated.",
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        "A long crease below the buttock that results from a deposit of fatty tissue."
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          "ref": "1999, Luiz Sergio Toledo, Refinements in Facial and Body Contouring, page 137",
          "text": "Patients with good skin tone will be treated with superficial liposuction of the lower third of the buttock and the \"banana fold,\" combined with fat injection of the gluteal depresion.",
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        },
        {
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        },
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          "ref": "2016, Melvin A. Shiffman, Alberto Di Giuseppe, Liposuction: Principles and Practice, page 535",
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