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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Source attestations

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
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Digestive system > Large intestine > Descending colon	3	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

proximal-distal subdivision of colon UBERON:0000168
Large intestine habitatmech:GOLD.5b0aa7456c

Also called

colon descendens — UBERON

Provenance

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