descending colon

1. 1.

   the part of the large intestine that descends from the transverse colon to the sigmoid colon

   Broadercolon

   Part oflarge intestine

Questions about descending colon

What does descending colon mean?

descending colon means "the part of the large intestine that descends from the transverse colon to the sigmoid colon".

Is descending colon a common word?

descending 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.