mesosigmoid

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English

Etymology

From meso- +‎ sigmoid.

Pronunciation

Noun

mesosigmoid (plural mesosigmoids)

  1. (anatomy) The mesentery that attaches the sigmoid colon to the posterior abdominal wall.
    • 1896, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association:
      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.
    • 2017, John Calvin Coffey, Rishabh Sehgal, Dara Walsh, Mesenteric Principles of Gastrointestinal 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 (c) The reflection and underlying mesosigmoidal fascia have been retracted to the left and the mesosigmoid to the right.
    • 2018, Xishan Wang, Natural Orifice Specimen Extraction Surgery, →ISBN:
      The inferior mesenteric artery and vein are exposed by retracting the mesosigmoid to the left (by the assistant).