Phrenicocolic ligament

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Ligament: Phrenicocolic ligament
Diagram to show the lines along which the peritoneum leaves the wall of the abdomen to invest the viscera. (Phrenicocolic ligament labeled at center right.)
Latin ligamentum phrenicocolicum
Gray's subject #246 1158
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A fold of peritoneum, the phrenicocolic ligament, is continued from the left colic flexure to the thoracic diaphragm opposite the tenth and eleventh ribs; it passes below and serves to support the spleen, and therefore has received the name of sustentaculum lienis.

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