 Mesenteric Artery, Inferior
"Mesenteric Artery, Inferior" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The artery supplying nearly all the left half of the transverse colon, the whole of the descending colon, the sigmoid colon, and the greater part of the rectum. It is smaller than the superior mesenteric artery (MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR) and arises from the aorta above its bifurcation into the common iliac arteries.
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D017537
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A07.231.114.565.510
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| Concept/Terms |
Mesenteric Artery, Inferior- Mesenteric Artery, Inferior
- Arteries, Inferior Mesenteric
- Artery, Inferior Mesenteric
- Inferior Mesenteric Arteries
- Inferior Mesenteric Artery
- Mesenteric Arteries, Inferior
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| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mesenteric Artery, Inferior" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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DeLoach JP, Jambhekar K, Mizell JS. Protecting Your Buns: Description of a New Teaching Tool for Total Mesorectal Excision. Dis Colon Rectum. 2019 11; 62(11):1273-1275.
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