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mesentery

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The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum and ilium, the other mesenteries being called mesocaecum, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc.

One of the vertical muscular radiating partitions which divide the body cavity of Anthozoa into chambers.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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While the left abdominal air sac is large and lies to the left of the mesentery. Source: Internet

Peritoneal folds develop from the ventral and dorsal mesentery of the embryo. Source: Internet

The growing organs "take their blood vessels with them" from the abdominal wall, and these blood vessels become covered by peritoneum, forming a mesentery. Source: Internet

The head, brains, tongue, feet, and mesentery are also valued. Source: Internet

The mesentery is the part of the peritoneum through which most abdominal organs are attached to the abdominal wall and supplied with blood and lymph vessels and nerves. Source: Internet

The next day Alexandr Vladimirov arrived from Tyumen, and assessed the mesentery was scraped. Source: Internet

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