| Descending colon | | | | Front of abdomen, showing surface markings for liver, stomach, and great intestine. (Descending colon visible at center right, in blue.) | | | | The duodenum and pancreas. (Descending colon visible at lower right.) | | Latin | colon descendens | | Gray's | subject #249 1181 | | System | | | MeSH | A03.556.124.526.356.500 | | Dorlands/Elsevier | {{{DorlandsPre}}}/{{{DorlandsSuf}}} | The Descending Colon passes downward through the left hypochondriac and lumbar regions along the lateral border of the left kidney. In anatomy of the digestive system, the duodenum is a hollow jointed tube connecting the stomach to the jejunum. ...
The pancreas is an organ that serves two functions: exocrine - it produces pancreatic juice containing digestive enzymes. ...
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Hypochondria (sometimes hypochondriasis) is the unfounded belief that one is suffering from a serious illness. ...
Human kidneys viewed from behind with spine removed The kidneys are bean-shaped excretory organs in vertebrates. ...
At the lower end of the kidney it turns medialward toward the lateral border of the Psoas, and then descends, in the angle between Psoas and Quadratus lumborum, to the crest of the ilium, where it ends in the iliac colon.
The peritoneum covers its anterior surface and sides, while its posterior surface is connected by areolar tissue with the lower and lateral part of the left kidney, the aponeurotic origin of the Transversus abdominis, and the Quadratus lumborum. The transversus abdominis muscle, also known as the transverse abdominal muscle, is a muscle layer of the anterior and lateral abdominal wall which is near to the internal oblique muscle. ...
It is smaller in caliber and more deeply placed than the ascending colon, and is more frequently covered with peritoneum on its posterior surface than the ascending colon (Treves). In anatomy of the digestive system, the colon or large intestine or large bowel is the part of the intestine from the cecum to the rectum. ...
In higher vertebrates, the peritoneum is the serous membrane that forms the lining of the abdominal cavity - it covers most of the intra-abdominal organs. ...
In front of it are some coils of small intestine. Diagram showing the small intestine In biology the small intestine is the part of the gastrointestinal tract between the stomach and the large intestine (colon). ...
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