Phrenicocolic ligament
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| Ligament: Phrenicocolic ligament | ||
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| Diagram to show the lines along which the peritoneum leaves the wall of the abdomen to invest the viscera. (Phrenicocolic ligament labeled at center right.) | ||
| Latin | ligamentum phrenicocolicum | |
| Gray's | subject #246 1158 | |
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| Dorlands/Elsevier | l_09/12492796 | |
A fold of peritoneum, the phrenicocolic ligament, is continued from the left colic flexure to the thoracic diaphragm opposite the tenth and eleventh ribs; it passes below and serves to support the spleen, and therefore has received the name of sustentaculum lienis.
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