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What is a mesentery?

What is a mesentery? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) The membrane that attaches the intestines to the wall of the abdomen, maintaining their position in the abdominal cavity, and supplying them with blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics.
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For these studies, an incision was made in the abdomen, and the mesentery and small intestine were exteriorized.
Two case reports exist in the literature describing extra-adrenal paragangliomas in the posterior mesentery.
Deep vein thrombosis typically occurs in the leg, but veins in the arms, retina, mesentery, and cerebral sinus may also be affected.
Mesenteric disease on CT scan is seen as a patchy or diffuse increase in density, strands within the mesentery, and a stellate appearance.
The liver is surrounded by splanchnopleure with a mesentery connecting it to the stomach and to the ventral body wall.
Tissue analyzed at the Tyler, TX, laboratory included right and left lung, omentum, and mesentery from each patient.

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