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Definition of Sigmoid flexure
1. Noun. The s-shaped curve between the descending colon and the rectum.
Medical Definition of Sigmoid flexure
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Literary usage of Sigmoid flexure
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1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Carcinoma of the Ovary Involving the sigmoid flexure.—BOWERMAN JESSETT (Bnt. Gyn.
Jour., 1007, pt. ..."
2. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1896)
"The sigmoid flexure, as you know, is the double curve the descending colon ...
The rectum is narrower where the sigmoid flexure joins it than further down, ..."
3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1886)
"... suddenly disappeared and he thought it had fallen on the ground, and as he
experienced no trouble, the fact escaped his Hair-pin in the sigmoid flexure. ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The sigmoid flexure is the narrowest part of the colon : it is situated in the
... The sigmoid flexure is in relation in front with the small intestines and ..."
5. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1890)
"The pain was low down, near the sigmoid flexure of the colon. On palpation no
tenderness was felt at any other part except this. On percussion of right side ..."
6. Pathological and Practical Researches on Diseases of the Stomach, the by John Abercrombie (1830)
"The colon was greatly distended, being in some places not less than five or six
inches in diameter ; and the sigmoid flexure was also enormously enlarged in ..."
7. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1885)
"Cancerous Stricture of the sigmoid flexure of the Rectum. DR. QUINLAN submitted
a case of cancerous stricture in the sigmoid flexure of the rectum. ..."
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