Dorsal mesentery

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Dorsal mesentery
Abdominal part of digestive tube and its attachment to the primitive or common mesentery. Human embryo of six weeks.
Schematic figure of the bursa omentalis, etc. Human embryo of eight weeks.
Latin	mesenterium dorsale commune
Gray's	subject #241 1103
Dorlands/Elsevier	m_10/12526373

The portion of this mesentery attached to the greater curvature of the stomach is named the dorsal mesentery (or dorsal mesogastrium, when referring to the portion at the stomach), and the part which suspends the colon is termed the mesocolon.

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