descending colon

the part of the colon from the splenic flexure to the beginning of the sigmoid colon
AnatomicalStructure class_of_anatomical_entity Q2562565
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descending colon

Summary

descending colon is a class of anatomical entity[1]. It draws 88 Wikipedia views per month (class_of_anatomical_entity category, ranking #310 of 1,372).[2]

Key Facts

  • descending colon's instance of is recorded as class of anatomical entity[3].
  • descending colon's subclass of is recorded as segment of colon[4].
  • descending colon's subclass of is recorded as particular anatomical entity[5].
  • descending colon's part of is recorded as colon[6].
  • descending colon's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D044683[7].
  • descending colon's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cdz3s[8].
  • descending colon's MeSH tree code is recorded as A03.556.124.526.356.500[9].
  • descending colon's MeSH tree code is recorded as A03.556.249.249.356.500[10].
  • descending colon's Terminologia Anatomica 98 ID is recorded as A05.7.03.006[11].
  • descending colon's described by source is recorded as Gray's Anatomy (20th edition)[12].
  • descending colon's Foundational Model of Anatomy ID is recorded as 14547[13].
  • descending colon's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/descending-colon[14].
  • descending colon's UBERON ID is recorded as 0001158[15].
  • descending colon's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C12268[16].
  • descending colon's arterial supply is recorded as left colic artery[17].
  • descending colon's connects with is recorded as transverse colon[18].
  • descending colon's connects with is recorded as sigmoid colon[19].
  • descending colon's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0227389[20].
  • descending colon's TA98 Latin term is recorded as colon descendens[21].
  • descending colon's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i66017[22].
  • descending colon's schematic is recorded as ColonDiscendente.png[23].
  • descending colon's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778292851[24].
  • descending colon's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2909106013[25].
  • descending colon's TA2 ID is recorded as 2986[26].
  • descending colon's ICD-11 ID is recorded as XA2G13[27].

Why It Matters

descending colon draws 88 Wikipedia views per month (class_of_anatomical_entity category, ranking #310 of 1,372).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . bartleby.com. Retrieved . bartleby.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Foundational Model of Anatomy. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . ncithesaurus.nci.nih.gov. ncithesaurus.nci.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . unifr.ch. unifr.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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