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mesentery|ˈmɛsəntərɪ|
Also 6 mis-.
[ad. med.L. mesenterium, a. Gr. µεσεντέριον, f. µέσ-ος middle + ἔντερον intestine. Cf. F. mésentère.]
1. Anat. (α) A fold of peritonæum which attaches some part of the intestinal canal (in restricted use, the jejunum and ileum only) to the posterior wall of the abdomen.
1547Boorde Brev. Health ii. xlv. 14 The misentery whiche is a pellycle or a skyn the whiche doth tye the guttes together. 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. i. 10 The discoveries of the milky Vessels in the Mesentery by Asellius. 1718J. Chamberlayne Relig. Philos. (1730) I. iv. §11 Notwithstanding all its Turnings, it [sc. the Bowels] is fastened in such a Manner to the Mesentery, that it is not possible for the Food to mistake its Way. 1872Mivart Elem. Anat. ix. (1873) 403 Those folds of membrane, the mesenteries which suspend the viscera from the backbone.
‖ (β) In Latin and Greek forms mesenterium, mesenterion, († mezentereon).
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. H iv b, Howe may the Mezentereon be knowen by Anathomy? 1594T. B. La Primand. Fr. Acad. ii. 350 The manifolde knitting of it [sc. the ileum] to the mesenterium. 1631Widdowes Nat. Philos. 63 The lesse principall parts of concoction, are the gutts and mesenterion. 1857L. Agassiz Contrib. Nat. Hist. U.S.A. II. 601 To form a pendent double curtain, or support of the intestine, the mesenterium.
2. Zool. (pl.) The vertical plates which divide the body cavity in actinozoa.
1861J. R. Greene Man. Anim. Kingd., Cœlent. 172 In Cerianthus two of the mesenteries descend..almost to the orifice at the base of the general cavity. 1875Huxley in Encycl. Brit. I. 129/2 Thin membranous lamellæ, the so-called mesenteries, which radiate from the oral disk and the lateral walls of the body to the parietes of the visceral tube.
3. attrib. and Comb.
1626Bacon Sylva §44 The Mesentery Veines. 1846Dana Zooph. iv. (1848) 35 A thin and extensile membrane, which has a mesentery-like appearance. |