- descending colon
- 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
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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 — 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 — /koh leuhn/, Anat. the last portion of the colon, beginning at the upper left abdomen in the region of the spleen and continuing downward along the left posterior wall to the sigmoid flexure. See diag. under intestine. * * * … Universalium
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
