| 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]
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The phrenicocolic ligament is also called Hensing's ligament after Friedrich Wilhelm Hensing (1719–1745), a German professor for medicine in Giessen.[2][3]
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This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 1158 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
- ^ Hensing ligament in The Free Dictionary by Farlex, Medical Eponyms, Farlex, 2012.
- ^ Friedrich W. Hensing in The Free Dictionary by Farlex, Medical Eponyms, Farlex, 2012.
