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... > Body Regions > Torso > Abdomen > Abdominal Cavity > Peritoneum > Mesentery
Tissues > Membranes > Serous Membrane > Peritoneum > Mesentery

Preferred term

Mesentery  

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Note

  • avoid /blood supply: prefer MESENTERIC ARTERIES or MESENTERIC VEINS; for mesenteric circulation use SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; diseases: coordinate with PERITONEAL DISEASES; neoplasms: coordinate with PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS

Scope note

  • A layer of the peritoneum which attaches the abdominal viscera to the ABDOMINAL WALL and conveys their blood vessels and nerves.

In other languages

  • suolilieve

    Finnish

  • mesenterium
  • ohutsuolen lieve
  • ohutsuolilieve
  • Tarmkäx

    Swedish

  • Mesenterium

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008643

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