mesentery

English

Etymology

From Late Latin mesenterium, from Ancient Greek μεσεντέρῐον (mesentérion), from μέσος (mésos, “middle”) + ἔντερον (énteron, “gut”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛs.ən.təɹ.i/, /ˈmɛs.ən.tɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛz.ənˌtɛɹ.i/, /ˈmɛs.ənˌtɛɹ.i/
• Hyphenation: mes‧en‧ter‧y, mes‧en‧tery

Noun

mesentery (plural mesenteries)

1. (anatomy) The membrane that attaches the intestines to the wall of the abdomen, maintaining their position in the abdominal cavity, and supplying them with blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics.

Derived terms

• mesenteric
• mesenteritis
• mesenterectomy

Translations

the membrane that attaches the intestines to the wall of the abdomen

• Abkhaz: аԥакьалҵӷа (apakʲʼalcʼğa)
• Arabic: مِسْرَاق m (misrāq)
• Armenian: միջընդերք (hy) (miǰənderkʻ)
• Basque: mesenterio
• Belarusian: брыжейка f (bryžjejka), аточына f (atóčyna)
• Bulgarian: було (bg) n (bulo)
• Catalan: mesenteri (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese:腸繫膜／肠系膜 (coeng⁴ hai⁶ mok^6-2)

  Hokkien: 腸間膜／肠间膜 (tn̂g-kan-mo̍͘h)

  Mandarin: 腸繫膜／肠系膜 (zh) (chángxìmó)

• Czech: okruží m
• Danish: tarmkrøs n
• Dutch: darmvlies n
• Finnish: suolilieve
• French: mésentère (fr) m
• Galician: touca f, mesenterio m
• German: Gekröse (de) n
• Greek: μεσεντέριο n (mesentério)

  Ancient: μεσεντέριον n (mesentérion)

• Hebrew: מִתְלֵה הַמְּעִי m (mitle hm'í)
• Hungarian: bélfodor (hu)
• Icelandic: garnahengi f
• Ido: mezentero (io)
• Indonesian: mesenteri
• Interlingua: mesenterio
• Irish: méiseintre f
• Italian: mesentere (it) m
• Japanese: 腸間膜 (ちょうかんまく, chōkanmaku)
• Kazakh: шажырқай (şajyrqai)
• Khmer: អន្តគុណ (km) (ʼɑɑntɑɑkun)
• Latin: mesenterium n
• Latvian: taukplēve f
• Lithuanian: pasaitas m
• Lombard: mesenter m
• Macedonian: мезентериј m (mezenterij)
• Malayalam: മെസന്ററി (mesanṟaṟi)
• Manx: muinney m
• Marathi: मेसेन्टरी (mesenṭarī)
• Navajo: akʼahłání
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krøs n, mesenterium n

  Nynorsk: krøs n

• Pali: antaguṇa n
• Polish: krezka f
• Portuguese: mesentério m
• Romanian: mezenter (ro) n
• Russian: брыже́йка (ru) f (bryžéjka), мезенте́рий (ru) m (mezentérij)
• Scottish Gaelic: lìon a' mhionaich m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мезѐнте̄рӣј m

  Roman: mezèntērīj (sh) m

• Slovak: okružie
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: drob m

• Spanish: mesenterio (es) m, entresijo m
• Swedish: tarmkäx n
• Tagalog: dalambituka
• Thai: เยื่อแขวนลำไส้ (yêua kwăen lam sâi)
• Ukrainian: бри́жа (uk) f (brýža)
• Vietnamese: màng treo ruột
• Welsh: mesenteri m