Transverse colon 4510595 167307238 2007-10-26T22:20:38Z BotMultichill 4080734 robot Adding: [[dv:ހުރަސް ފަލަ ގޮހޮރު]] {{Infobox Anatomy | Name = {{PAGENAME}} | Latin = colon transversum | GraySubject = 249 | GrayPage = 1180 | Image = Dickdarm-Schema.svg| Caption = 1: [[Ascending colon]]<BR>2: [[Transverse colon]]<BR>3: [[Descending colon]]<BR>4: [[Sigmoid colon]]<BR>5: [[Rectum]]<BR>| Image2 = Gray1223.png | Caption2 = Front of abdomen, showing surface markings for liver, stomach, and great intestine. | Precursor = [[Midgut]] (first 2/3) [[Hindgut]] (last 1/3) | System = | Artery = [[Middle colic artery]] | Vein = [[Middle colic vein]] | Nerve = | Lymph = | MeshName = | MeshNumber = | DorlandsPre = c_47 | DorlandsSuf = 14169300 | }} The '''transverse colon''' the longest and most movable part of the [[Colon (anatomy)|colon]], passes with a downward convexity from the right [[hypochondrium region]] across the abdomen, opposite the confines of the epigastric and umbilical zones, into the left hypochondrium region, where it curves sharply on itself beneath the lower end of the [[spleen]], forming the splenic or [[left colic flexure]]. The [[hepatic flexure|right colic flexure]] is adjacent to the [[liver]]. In its course, it describes an arch, the concavity of which is directed backward and a little upward; toward its splenic end there is often an abrupt U-shaped curve which may descend lower than the main curve. It is almost completely invested by [[peritoneum]], and is connected to the inferior border of the [[pancreas]] by a large and wide duplicature of that membrane, the [[transverse mesocolon]]. It is in relation, by its upper surface, with the [[liver]] and [[gall-bladder]], the [[greater curvature of the stomach]], and the lower end of the [[spleen]]; by its under surface, with the [[small intestine]]; by its anterior surface, with the anterior layers of the [[greater omentum]] and the abdominal [[parietes]]; its posterior surface is in relation from right to left with the descending portion of the [[duodenum]], the [[head of the pancreas]], and some of the convolutions of the [[jejunum]] and [[ileum]]. ==Additional images== <gallery> Image:illu_intestine.jpg|Intestines Image:Gray989.png|Schematic figure of the bursa omentalis, etc. Human embryo of eight weeks. Image:Gray1034.png|Front view of the thoracic and abdominal viscera. Image:Gray1035.png|The epiploic foramen, greater sac or general cavity (red) and lesser sac, or omental bursa (blue). Image:Digestive_system_diagram_en.svg|Digestive system </gallery> ==See also== * [[Colon (anatomy)]] ==External links== * {{eMedicineDictionary|Transverse+colon}} * {{SUNYAnatomyFigs|37|06|03}} - "The large intestine." {{Gray's}} {{digestive-stub}} {{Digestive tract}} [[dv:ހުރަސް ފަލަ ގޮހޮރު]]