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mesosigmoid en · NOUN

Etymology

From meso- + sigmoid.

Meanings

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:
   • The inferior mesenteric artery and vein are exposed by retracting the mesosigmoid to the left (by the assistant). 2018, Xishan Wang, Natural Orifice Specimen Extraction Surgery, →ISBN:
   • 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 (c) The reflection and underlying mesosigmoidal fascia have been retracted to the left and the mesosigmoid to the right. 2017, John Calvin Coffey, Rishabh Sehgal, Dara Walsh, Mesenteric Principles of Gastrointestinal Surgery, →ISBN:

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Deriveds

mesosigmoidal