Definitions for mesentery

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mesentery mes·en·ter·y

Spelling: [mes-uh n-ter-ee, mez-]

IPA: /ˈmɛs ənˌtɛr i, ˈmɛz-/

Mesentery is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 256 anagrams from letters in mesentery (eeemnrsty).

Definitions for mesentery

noun

1. the membrane, consisting of a double layer of peritoneum, that invests the intestines, attaching them to the posterior wall of the abdomen, maintaining them in position in the abdominal cavity, and supplying them with blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics, especially the part of this membrane investing the jejunum and ileum.

Origin of mesentery

1375-1425; late Middle English New Latin mesenterium Greek mesentérion (equivalent to mes- mes- + entérion, neuter of entérios of the bowel); see Examples for mesentery

The mesentery, stomach and intestines were excessively thin and transparent.

The mesentery (M) is very much deeper and thinner than on the previous day.

The mesentery is a delicate, narrow membrane about twenty feet long.

They are not seen well, unless in a young subject, and by cutting into the intestine very close to the mesentery.

The other edge of the mesentery is gathered up as you have gathered the ruffle.

Unfold this tube, separating it from its enveloping membrane, the mesentery.

The mesentery of the stomach, or mesogastrium, enlarges in Mammalia to form a peculiar sack known as the greater omentum.

In the case of the mesentery, such a mode of treating dropsy would speedily destroy the patient.

The veins of the omentum, mesentery, and intestines, were full of blood.

This flattened band is the mesentery, shewn commencing in fig. 117, and much more advanced in fig. 119, M.