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Definition of Mesentery
1. Noun. A double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines.
Definition of Mesentery
1. n. 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 mesocæcum, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc.
Definition of Mesentery
1. Noun. (anatomy) 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mesentery
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Literary usage of Mesentery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural Theology by William Paley (1826)
"It forms the margin of this mesentery, being stitched and fastened to it like
the edging of a ruffle: being four times as long as the ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1905)
"The loop of gut is then caught by holding its mesentery between the ist and 2nd
... With the mesentery so held by the two fingers, a pair of forceps is ..."
3. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"MESENTERIO GLANDS »re the lymphatic ganglions of the mesentery. ... MESENTERIO
HKR'NIA. if one of the layers of the mesentery be torn by a blow, ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"It occurred to me that if the mesentery could be folded down upon the outside of
the intestine, and then turned in with the latter at the point of suture, ..."
5. Anatomy, descriptive and surgical by Henry Gray (1864)
"They run parallel with one another between the layers of the mesentery; each
vessel dividing into two branches, which unite with a similar branch on each ..."
6. The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body by Matthew Baillie (1812)
"mesentery inflamed. The mesentery is often found in a state of inflammation;
although I believe ... When the mesentery is inflamed, it becomes much * Vid. ..."
7. A Text-book of operative surgery: Covering the Surgical Anatomy and by Warren Stone Bickham (1904)
"mesentery (proper).—A fan-shaped fold of peritoneum beginning at the spinal column
and following and covering the anterior aspect of the superior mesenteric ..."
8. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"The ascending colon, after its rotation and the assumption of its normal position,
is separated in its mesentery from the mesentery of the ileum, ..."
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