Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a mesentery, in any sense: as, mesenteric attachment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Anat.) Pertaining to a mesentery; mesaraic.
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- adjective anatomy Relating to the
mesentery .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or located in a mesentery
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Examples
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In this membrane are some 150 glands about the size of an almond, called mesenteric glands.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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Seven of eight people with my patient's diagnosis, called mesenteric vascular ischemia, leave the hospital alive.
NYT > Home Page M.D. By PETER B. BACH 2011
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I had to put my parents' Berner to sleep last year - malignant mast cell disease spread from a solid mass in the flank into the spleen, liver, and mesenteric nodes within weeks of our originally finding and subsequently excising the primary tumor.
Cuteness Alert 1 Dinosaur 2009
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So, we diagnose someone as suffering from mesenteric adenitis not just because they are in discomfort due to fever, abdominal pain and diarrhea, but because the lower right quadrant of the mesenteric lymphatic system displays abnormal inflammation.
Concepts of Disease and Health Murphy, Dominic 2008
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December 9, 2005 at 12: 30 am backgammon money play real backgammon money play real It was here he opened a trespassers out-station, and affectionately-surveyed his monarchical-aristocratical mesenteric works, under the assumed wood-sawyer of Market-house Sur.
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Some barbarians seize this dog, who so prodigiously excels man in friendship, they nail him to a table and dissect him living to show the mesenteric veins.
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I have a case right now where the CT scan of 8/23 showed a normal appendix with enlarged mesenteric lymph nodes.
An Inexact Science 1 Dinosaur 2007
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Ultrasound showed and appendix at the upper limit of normal, still with the mesenteric lymph nodes.
An Inexact Science 1 Dinosaur 2007
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The viscera were pulled out; and the kidneys, liver, heart and lings, and the omental and mesenteric fat the fat surrounding the intestines were separated from the rest, and cooked on the hot stones and coals for 5 minutes.
Low carb diets and copper | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006
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A few years later, and here I am, identifying venous thrombi and peri-pancreatic stranding, the common bile duct and the superior mesenteric artery.
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