descending colon
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Descending colon — Front of abdomen, showing surface markings for liver, stomach, and great intestine. (Descending colon visible at center right, in blue.) … Wikipedia
descending colon — n the part of the large intestine on the left side that extends from the bend below the spleen to the sigmoid colon compare ASCENDING COLON, TRANSVERSE COLON … Medical dictionary
descending colon — noun the part of the large intestine that descends from the transverse colon to the sigmoid colon • Hypernyms: ↑colon • Part Holonyms: ↑large intestine … Useful english dictionary
descending colon — noun A part of colon adjacent to sigmoid colon … Wiktionary
descending colon — descend′ing co′lon [[t]ˈkoʊ lən[/t]] n. anat. the last portion of the colon … From formal English to slang
Colon (anatomy) — For other uses, see Colon. Colon (anatomy) Front of abdomen, showing surface markings for liver, stomach, and large intestine. Gray s … Wikipedia
Colon — The part of the large intestine that runs from the cecum to the rectum as a long hollow tube that serves to remove water from digested food and let the remaining material, solid waste called stool, move through it to the rectum and leave the body … Medical dictionary
colon — colon1 /koh leuhn/, n., pl. colons for 1, cola / leuh/ for 2. 1. the sign (:) used to mark a major division in a sentence, to indicate that what follows is an elaboration, summation, implication, etc., of what precedes; or to separate groups of… … Universalium
Colón — /koh lon /; Sp. /kaw lawn /, n. a seaport in Panama at the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal. 85,600. * * * Segment that makes up most of the large intestine. Though the two terms are often used interchangeably, the colon technically excludes the… … Universalium
colon descendens — [TA] descending colon the portion of the colon between the left colic flexure and the sigmoid colon at the pelvic brim; the part of it that lies in the left part of the iliac fossa is sometimes called the iliac colon … Medical dictionary
