descending colon

Cancer is shown in a section of the descending colon.

The cancer was located in the area of the large intestine known as the descending colon.

There are several diseases associated with the descending colon.

Cancer of the descending colon is the most serious of the diseases.

The open end of the descending colon will be pulled through this site to the surface of the skin.

The stools gradually solidify as they move along into the descending colon.

- The descending colon travels down the left abdomen.

A spasm of fear reached down to the very bottom of his descending colon.

The investigation started with an endoscopic examination up to the junction of the sigmoid descending colon.

It is possible to have medical problems with the descending colon including ulcers, cancer and Crohn's disease.

The left colic vein drains the descending colon.

It goes underneath the stomach and the pancreas and joins the descending colon near the spleen.

The descending colon laterally (further left).

The left mid-Poupart line corresponds in its upper three-quarters to the inner edge of the descending colon.

In addition, there was distension of the caecum (9.5 cm) and descending colon (7 cm).

No significant difference was found in the rate of metabolism of butyrate by biopsy specimens taken from the ascending and descending colon (Fig 4).

From the arches formed by these anastomoses branches are distributed to the descending colon and the left part of the transverse colon.

Payr's disease is constipation due to kinking of an adhesion between the transverse and descending colon.

Cross sections of the descending colon were scores for number of cells in a crypt column from crypt base to mouth.

Butyrate metabolism was similar in ascending and descending colon, and these values were not significantly different from those found in controls (Fig 4).

The descending colon begins at the splenic flexure at at the upper left part of the abdomen.

The additional fecal material is stored in the colon until the next mass 'peristaltic' movement of the transverse and descending colon.