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mesosigmoids

mesosigmoids is the plural of mesosigmoid.

Meaning of mesosigmoid

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

Questions about mesosigmoids

What is mesosigmoids the plural of?
Mesosigmoids is the plural of mesosigmoid.

Words near mesosigmoids in the dictionary

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

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