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mesosigmoid

mesosigmoid noun: the mesentery that attaches the sigmoid colon to the posterior abdominal wall.

Noun

mesosigmoid (plural mesosigmoids)

  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.1896, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
    • This places the reflection under stretch and facilitates its division. (c) The reflection and underlying mesosigmoidal fascia have been retracted to the left and the mesosigmoid to the right.2017, John Calvin Coffey, Rishabh Sehgal, Dara Walsh, Mesenteric Principles of Gastrointestinal Surgery, →ISBN

mesosigmoid meaning in Tamil

mesosigmoid in Tamil

வயிற்றுள்ளுறைசேர் இரட்டை வளையுரு மடிப்பு

Forms of mesosigmoid

pluralmesosigmoids

Origin of mesosigmoid

From meso- + sigmoid.

Words formed from mesosigmoid

Words that rhyme with mesosigmoid

Questions about mesosigmoid

What does mesosigmoid mean?
Mesosigmoid means the mesentery that attaches the sigmoid colon to the posterior abdominal wall.
What is mesosigmoid in Tamil?
Mesosigmoid in Tamil is வயிற்றுள்ளுறைசேர் இரட்டை வளையுரு மடிப்பு. See Mesosigmoid meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mesosigmoid?
Mesosigmoid is a noun.
What is the plural of mesosigmoid?
The plural of mesosigmoid is mesosigmoids.

Words near mesosigmoid in the dictionary

  1. mesoscutellum
  2. mesoscutum
  3. mesoseme
  4. mesosiderite
  5. mesosiderites
  6. mesosigmoid
  7. mesosigmoidal
  8. mesosigmoids
  9. mesosoma
  10. mesosomal
  11. mesosomas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mesosigmoid (page history and authors); mesosigmoid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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