Mesosigmoid

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The mesentery that attaches the sigmoid colon to the posterior abdominal wall.

    "I designate this duplicature of peritoneum as Gruber's fold, because so far as I am aware, Gruber was the first to describe it. It controls to some extent the mesosigmoid and sustains it .from prolapse especially keeping it out of the pelvis."

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"I designate this duplicature of peritoneum as Gruber's fold, because so far as I am aware, Gruber was the first to describe it. It controls to some extent the mesosigmoid and sustains it .from prolapse especially keeping it out of the pelvis."

Etymology

From meso- + sigmoid.

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sigmoid colon

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