The middle colic artery is a branch of the superior mesenteric artery that mostly supplies the transverse colon. It arises just below the pancreas, and, passing downward and forward between the layers of the transverse mesocolon, divides into two branches: right and left. The right branch anastomoses with the right colic artery The left branch anastomoses with the left colic artery, a branch of the inferior mesenteric artery. The arches thus formed are placed about two fingers' breadth from the transverse colon, to which they distribute branches. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_colic_artery ]
Term information
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- EMAPA:37106 (MA:th)
- Wikipedia:Middle_colic_artery
- FMA:14810
- NCIT:C52981
- galen:MiddleColicArtery
- MA:0002007
- SCTID:244276007
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Term relations
- artery and supplies some transverse colon and connecting branch of some superior mesenteric artery
- artery
- part of some system
- connecting branch of some superior mesenteric artery
- supplies some transverse colon