Terminology Service for NFDI4Health

descending colon

Go to external page 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
database cross reference
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim

depicted by

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

id

UBERON:0001158