mesocolonn.

1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 195 Mesocolon,..that part of the Mesentery which is continued to the great Guts.

1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 135 The second Mesenterie, or Mesenterium majorum, as I choose rather to call it, than Mesocolon (for it did belong likewise to the Cæcum and Rectum, as well as the Colon), [etc.].

1749 Philos. Trans. 1748 (Royal Soc.) 45 529 The Colons were out of their natural Situation, and were convoluted in each Child, by as narrow Portions of the Mesocolon, as any part of the Ileum is by its Mesentery.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 14/1 The folds respectively termed right and left mesocolon.

1858 H. Gray Anat. 602 The ascending Meso-Colon.

1881 Science 22 Oct. 497/2 The adhesions..proved to bound an abscess-cavity between the under-surface of the liver, the transverse colon, and the transverse mesocolon.

1966 Radiology 86 327/2 Should this process of fusion of the descending mesocolon with the parietal peritoneum fail to occur, a persistent descending mesocolon results.

1977 Lancet 1 Jan. 45/1 There was much sclerosis and shortening of his transverse mesocolon.

1992 Austral. Vet. Jrnl. 69 11 180 degree volvulus of the pelvic flexure was present, associated with an inelastic band of tissue connecting the mesocolon to the umbilicus.