Phrenicocolic ligament | |
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![]() Diagram to show the lines along which the peritoneum leaves the wall of the abdomen to invest the viscera. (Phrenicocolic ligament labeled at center right.) | |
Details | |
Identifiers | |
Latin | ligamentum phrenicocolicum |
TA98 | A10.1.02.211 |
TA2 | 3769 |
FMA | 16551 |
Anatomical terminology |
A fold of peritoneum, the phrenicocolic ligament is continued from the left colic flexure to the thoracic diaphragm opposite the tenth and eleventh ribs; it passes below and serves to support the spleen, and therefore has received the name of sustentaculum lienis.[1]
The phrenicocolic ligament is also called Hensing's ligament after Friedrich Wilhelm Hensing (1719–1745), a German professor for medicine in Giessen.[2][3]