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descending colon
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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. [ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BTO_0000641 ]
Term info
Label
descending colon
Synonyms
- colon descendens
Subsets
uberon_slim, efo_slim
depicted by
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Gray1223.png
has obo namespace
uberon
id
UBERON:0001158