Transverse mesocolon
Superior and inferior duodenal fossæ. (Transverse mesocolon visible at top center.)
Diagram showing the lines along which the peritoneum leaves the wall of the abdomen to invest the viscera. (Tranverse mesocolon labeled at center right.)
Latin	mesocolon sigmoideum
Gray's	subject #246 1157
System
Precursor	{{{Precursor}}}
MeSH	[1]
Dorlands/Elsevier	m_10/12526435

The transverse mesocolon is a broad, meso-fold of peritoneum, which connects the transverse colon to the posterior wall of the abdomen. Image File history File links Gray1041. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x816, 226 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Wikipedia:Grays Anatomy images with missing articles 21 List of images in Grays Anatomy: XI. Splanchnology... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... In biology, an organ is a group of tissues which perform some function. ... Embryology is the branch of developmental biology that studies embryos and their development. ... Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a huge controlled vocabulary (or metadata system) for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences. ... Elseviers logo Elsevier, the worlds largest publisher of medical and scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group. ... In anatomy of the digestive system, the colon is the part of the intestine from the cecum to the rectum. ... The abdomen is a part of the body. ...

It is continuous with the two posterior layers of the greater omentum, which, after separating to surround the transverse colon, join behind it, and are continued backward to the vertebral column, where they diverge in front of the anterior border of the pancreas. The greater omentum (great omentum; gastrocolic omentum) is the largest peritoneal fold. ... The vertebral column seen from the side Different regions (curvatures) of the vertebral column The vertebral column (backbone or spine) is a column of vertebrae situated in the dorsal aspect of the abdomen. ... The pancreas is an organ in the digestive system that serves two major functions: exocrine - it produces pancreatic juice containing digestive enzymes. ...

This fold contains between its layers the vessels which supply the transverse colon.

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