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descending colon

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001158

The portion of the colon between the left colic flexure and the sigmoid colon at the pelvic brim; the portion of the descending colon lying in the left iliac fossa is sometimes called the iliac colon. [ BTO:0000641 ]

Synonyms: colon descendens

Term info

database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, human_reference_atlas

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Gray1223.png

id

UBERON:0001158

prefLabel

Descending colon

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606