hepatic flexure of colon

UBERON:0022277 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·CLOSE REVIEWED

Hepatic (or the right colic) flexure is the sharp bend between the ascending and the transverse colon. The right colic flexure is adjacent to the liver, and is therefore also known as the hepatic flexure. Thus, the left colic flexure is also known as the splenic flexure (as it is close to the spleen). The hepatic flexure lies in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen in humans. — UBERON

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 > Hepatic flexure	—

Broader habitats

colic flexure UBERON:0022275
Large intestine habitatmech:GOLD.5b0aa7456c

Also called

Hepatic flexure — GOLD
flexura coli heaptica — UBERON
hepatic flexure — UBERON
right colic flexure — UBERON

Curation

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REVIEW 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5
Reviewed and endorsed the seeder's own resolution. Risky-grounding review (#12): the flag is lexical: the term's label spells out a qualifier that the GOLD path supplies positionally rather than in the leaf. The path pins the sense, and it is the term's. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.fa5a107e69)

Provenance

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