Crossword clues for mesentery
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mesentery \Mes"en*ter*y\ (?; 277), n. [Gr. mesente`rion, me`sos + 'e`nteron intestine: cf. F. m['e]sent[`e]re.]
(Anat.) The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum and ilium, the other mesenteries being called mesoc[ae]cum, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc.
(Zo["o]l.) One of the vertical muscular radiating partitions which divide the body cavity of Anthozoa into chambers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) The membrane that attaches the intestines to the wall of the abdomen, maintaining their position in the abdominal cavity, and supplying them with blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics.
WordNet
n. a double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines
Wikipedia
The word mesentery is derived from the Greek mesos, "in the middle" and enteron, an "intestine". The term mesentery is used for the small intestine and mesenteric organ is sometimes used to refer to the rest of the mesentery that incorporates the mesocolon, mesoappendix, mesosigmoid and mesorectum.
Conventional teaching had described the mesocolon as a fragmented structure with all the named parts–the ascending, transverse, descending, and sigmoid mesocolons, mesoappendix, and mesorectum as separately terminating their insertion into the posterior abdominal wall. In 2012 following detailed microscopic and electron microscopic examinations, the mesocolon was shown to be a single, continuous structure that commenced from the duodenojejunal flexure and extended to the level of the distal mesorectum.This simpler concept has enabled much advance to be made in different aspects of surgery on the colon and rectum.It has also had implications for sciences related to surgery, anatomy, and development.
A mesentery is a membrane inside the body cavity of an animal. The term identifies different structures in different phyla: in vertebrates it is a double fold of the peritoneum enclosing the intestines; in other organisms it forms complete or incomplete partitions of the body cavity, whether that is the coelom or, as in the Anthozoa, the gastrovascular cavity.
The word "mesentery" is derived from the Greek mesos, "in the middle" and enteron, an "intestine".
Usage examples of "mesentery".
Then the chyle, conveyed through the thoracic duct from its cistern in the mesentery, is carried to the vena cava, and so to the heart.
The princess has kreps, a consumptive scirrhus growing in her mesenteries.
Mesentery, uterus, ovaries and rectum removed, multiple lacerations on both posterior and anterior cavity walls.
Organs pulsed wetly, veins clearly visible in the mesenteries that enfolded them like a caul.
You’ve abused muscles, torn ligaments and mesenteries, slipped a spinal disk that I reset.
I had to replace parts of his esophagus, the superior vena cava, some mesentery .
I had to replace parts of his esophagus, the superior vena cava, some mesentery.