mesentery
Meaning of mesentery
noun
a fold of the peritoneum which attaches the stomach, small intestine, pancreas, spleen, and other organs to the posterior wall of the abdomen.
late Middle English: via medieval Latin from Greek mesenterion, from mesos ‘middle’ + enteron ‘intestine’.
Information about mesentery
- It is a name.
- The plural form of mesentery is: mesenteries.
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Hyphenation of mesentery
mesen-tery
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- mesentery is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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