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descending colon

UBERON:0001158 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT SEEDED

The portion of the colon between the left colic flexure and the sigmoid colon at the pelvic brim; the portion of the descending colon lying in the left iliac fossa is sometimes called the iliac colon. — UBERON

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Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
SourceLabel / pathAssertionsUnit
GOLD Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Digestive system > Large intestine > Descending colon 3 ORGANISM

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