MESENTERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mesentery mean? 

• MESENTERY (noun)
  The noun MESENTERY has 1 sense:

1. a double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines

  Familiarity information: MESENTERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MESENTERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("mesentery" is a kind of...):

peritoneum (a transparent membrane that lines the abdominal cavity in mammals and covers most of the viscera)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mesentery"):

mesocolon (mesentery that holds the lower colon to the dorsal abdominal wall)

Derivation:

mesenteric (of or relating to or located in a mesentery)

 Context examples 

Rarely, it may also begin in other organs, including the stomach, liver, jejunum (the middle part of the small intestine), biliary tract (organs and ducts that make and store bile), mesentery, or heart.

(Gastrinoma, NCI Dictionary)

The tissue that lines the wall of the abdominal cavity, intestine, and mesentery.

(Peritoneum, NCI Thesaurus)

A gastrointestinal stromal tumor that arises from the mesentery.

(Mesenteric Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Of, or relating to, or located in a mesentery.

(Mesenteric, NCI Thesaurus)

A lymph node located in the mesentery.

(Mesenteric Lymph Node, NCI Thesaurus)

The definition of N1c TNM finding depends on the specific type of cancer that it refers to; for example, for breast cancer it refers to metastases in 1 to 3 axillary lymph nodes and in internal mammary lymph nodes with micrometastases or macrometastases detected by sentinel lymph node biopsy but not clinically detected; for colorectal cancer it refers to tumor deposit(s) in the subserosa, mesentery, or nonperitonealized pericolic or perirectal tissues without regional lymph node metastasis.

(N1c Stage Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

It consists of the parietal peritoneum that covers the inside of the abdominal wall and the visceral peritoneum that covers the surface of the intestine and mesentery.

(Peritoneum, NCI Thesaurus)