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noun

Mesentery n.

(Anat.) The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum and ilium, the other mesenteries being called mesocaecum, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc.

(Zool.) One of the vertical muscular radiating partitions which divide the body cavity of Anthozoa into chambers.

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Etymology of 'Mesentery'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mesentery" Quotes from Famous Books

... thing and all things of the will and understanding flow with the utmost distinctness into acts. How again they interweave themselves in the body is clear from the various plexuses, such as those of the heart, the mesentery, and others; and also from the knots called ganglions, into which many fibers enter from every region and there intermingle, and when variously joined together go forth to their functions, and this again and again; ...

— Heaven and its Wonders and Hell • Emanuel Swedenborg

Words linked to "Mesentery" : peritoneum, mesocolon