Usually means: Part of colon; moves downward.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. descending colon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. descending colon: Vocabulary.com
  3. Descending colon: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  4. descending colon: Wiktionary
  5. descending colon: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. descending colon: Dictionary.com
  7. Descending colon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. descending colon: Rhymezone
  9. descending colon: FreeDictionary.org
  10. descending colon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. descending colon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Colon, descending, descending colon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. descending colon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Colon, descending, descending colon: Medical dictionary
  7. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (descending colon)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) A part of the colon adjacent to the sigmoid colon.

Similar:
ascending colon, colon, transverse colon, midcolon, intercolumniation, intercolumnation, rectosigmoid, midgut, intussusceptum, tailgut, more...

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ascending colon, colon, transverse colon, midcolon, intercolumniation, intercolumnation, rectosigmoid, midgut, intussusceptum, tailgut, more...



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