ascending colon

1. 1.

   the part of the large intestine that ascends from the cecum to the transverse colon

   Broadercolon

   Part oflarge intestine

   Partsascending artery

Questions about ascending colon

What does ascending colon mean?

ascending colon means "the part of the large intestine that ascends from the cecum to the transverse colon".

Is ascending colon a common word?

ascending colon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.