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Mesentery

noun
1.
A double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines.





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... they appear like a soft continuous mass; and yet it is in accord with these that each 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; besides like things ...
— Heaven and its Wonders and Hell • Emanuel Swedenborg


Words linked to "Mesentery" :   mesocolon, peritoneum, mesenteric


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