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From Late Latin mesenterium and its source, Ancient Greek μεσεντέριον (mesentérion).

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mesenterium (plural mesenteria)

  1. (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.

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mesenterium n (definite singular mesenteriet, indefinite plural mesenterier, definite plural mesenteria or mesenteriene)

  1. mesentery

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