banana fold

From the resemblance of this fold of flesh to the shape of a banana.

banana fold (plural banana folds)

1. A long crease below the buttock that results from a deposit of fatty tissue.
   • 1999, Luiz Sergio Toledo, Refinements in Facial and Body Contouring, page 137:

     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.

   • 2000, Gregory R. D. Evans, Operative Plastic Surgery, page 95:

     interior buttocks, banana fold, and posterior thigh are suctioned through both trochanteric and tnfragluteal crease entry sites.

   • 2016, Melvin A. Shiffman, Alberto Di Giuseppe, Liposuction: Principles and Practice, page 535:

     With the patient in the lateral position, the flanks and lateral thighs, the gluteal fold, and the “banana” fold are treated.