Usually means: Membrane attaching intestines to abdomen.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. mesentery: Merriam-Webster
  2. mesentery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mesentery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mesentery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mesentery: Vocabulary.com
  6. mesentery: Wordnik
  7. mesentery: Wiktionary
  8. mesentery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. mesentery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. mesentery: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. mesentery: Dictionary.com
  12. Mesentery (zoology), Mesentery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Mesentery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. mesentery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. mesentery: Rhymezone
  16. Mesentery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. mesentery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. mesentery: FreeDictionary.org
  19. mesentery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. mesentery: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mesentery: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. mesentery: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Mesentery: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  7. mesentery: Medical dictionary
  8. Mesentery: Drug Medical Dictionary
  9. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mesentery: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mesentery)

▸ noun:  (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.

Similar:
mesenterium, mesosigmoid, mesocolon, mesorectum, mesoduodenum, myenteron, mesoappendix, mesenteric artery, mesoarium, peritoneum, more...

Phrases:
mesentery proper, urogenital mesentery, ovarian mesentery, testicle mesentery, more...

Adjectives:
dorsal, small, long, short, common, adjacent, intestinal, ventral, primitive, ileal, colonic

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Similar:
mesenterium, mesosigmoid, mesocolon, mesorectum, mesoduodenum, myenteron, mesoappendix, mesenteric artery, mesoarium, peritoneum, more...

Phrases:
mesentery proper, urogenital mesentery, ovarian mesentery, testicle mesentery, more...

Adjectives:
dorsal, small, long, short, common, adjacent, intestinal, ventral, primitive, ileal, colonic



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