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  • noun Plural form of mesentery.

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Examples

  • We are the juice of the mesenteries mixed with formaldehyde that you smell as you try to eat your dinner after a long day in anatomy lab.

    Priya Malhotra: Discussing Med Student Problems With @MedStudentProbl Priya Malhotra 2011

  • We are the juice of the mesenteries mixed with formaldehyde that you smell as you try to eat your dinner after a long day in anatomy lab.

    Priya Malhotra: Discussing Med Student Problems With @MedStudentProbl Priya Malhotra 2011

  • We are the juice of the mesenteries mixed with formaldehyde that you smell as you try to eat your dinner after a long day in anatomy lab.

    Priya Malhotra: Discussing Med Student Problems With @MedStudentProbl Priya Malhotra 2011

  • Not only would a designer never have made a mistake like that nervous detour; a decent designer would never have perpetrated anything of the shambles that is the criss-crossing maze of arteries, veins, nerves, intestines, wads of fat and muscle, mesenteries and more.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Not only would a designer never have made a mistake like that nervous detour; a decent designer would never have perpetrated anything of the shambles that is the criss-crossing maze of arteries, veins, nerves, intestines, wads of fat and muscle, mesenteries and more.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • You've abused muscles, torn ligaments and mesenteries, slipped a spinal disk that I reset.

    The Ringworld Throne Niven, Larry 1996

  • The vascular system itself is quite peculiar, consisting of lacunae and channels destitute of endothelium, situated within the thickness of the basement-membrane of the body-wall, of the gut-wall and of the mesenteries.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • The finding of yellowish, white, cheesy nodules or masses in the liver, spleen, intestines and mesenteries is strong evidence of tuberculosis.

    Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

  • The exceptions to the rule are mentioned as occurring in the following modes: 1st, the caecum and sigmoid flexure of the colon, which are devoid of mesenteries, and only partially covered by the peritonaeum, may slip down behind this membrane, and become hernial; 2nd, the inguinal part of the peritonaeum may suffer rupture, and allow the intestine to protrude through the opening.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The bird was heavily parasitized by worms in the mesenteries and seems to be an adult.

    Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban

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