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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
mesocolon is a noun meaning "mesentery that holds the lower colon to the dorsal abdominal wall". It carries one recorded sense.
mesentery that holds the lower colon to the dorsal abdominal wall
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mesocolon come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.