Mesocolon

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The part of the mesentery that attaches the colon to the abdominal wall.
  2. 2
    mesentery that holds the lower colon to the dorsal abdominal wall wordnet

Etymology

From meso- + colon.

Related phrases

abdominal wall

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