mesenteries
Meaning of mesenteries
plural noun
a fold of the peritoneum which attaches the stomach, small intestine, pancreas, spleen, and other organs to the posterior wall of the abdomen.
late Middle English: via medieval Latin from Greek mesenterion, from mesos ‘middle’ + enteron ‘intestine’.
Information about mesenteries
- It is a name.
- The singular form of mesenteries is: mesentery.
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Hyphenation of mesenteries
mesen-ter-ies
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- mesenteries is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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