mesenterium
English edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin mesenterium and its source, Ancient Greek μεσεντέριον (mesentérion).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mesenterium (plural mesenteria)
- (anatomy) The mesentery.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 5, subsection ii:
- The mesenterium, or midriff, diaphragma, is a cause, which the Greeks called φρένες, because by his inflammation the mind is much troubled with convulsions and dotage.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
mesenterium n (definite singular mesenteriet, indefinite plural mesenterier, definite plural mesenteria or mesenteriene)