splenic flexure of colon

UBERON:0022276 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·CLOSE REVIEWED

The splenic (or left colic) flexure is a sharp bend between the transverse and the descending colon in the left upper quadrant of humans. The left colic flexure is near the spleen, and hence called the splenic flexure. There are two colic flexures in the transverse colon — the other being the hepatic flexure in the right upper quadrant. — 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 > Splenic flexure	—

Broader habitats

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

Also called

Splenic flexure — GOLD
flexura coli splenica — UBERON
left colic flexure — UBERON
splenic 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.c091c5226f)

Provenance

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