Ascending (great) colon
Colon ascendens
The great colon of the horse: a double horseshoe of four limbs joined by three flexures that ferments fibre and absorbs water.
About the ascending (great) colon of the horse
Ascending (great) colon is a digestive of the belly (abdomen), on the left side. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Colon ascendens. You can turn it above, see it in place in the belly of the horse, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.
Where it runs from and to
What this structure is anchored to at each end, and what that lets it do.
- Origin
- The caecum, at the caecocolic opening.
- Action
- The great colon of the horse: a double horseshoe of four limbs joined by three flexures that ferments fibre and absorbs water.
- Nerve
- Vagus nerve and the cranial mesenteric plexus.
Written for Vetomica in its own words from the standard reference anatomy of the horse; the books it was checked against are listed below.
Terminology
- English
- Ascending (great) colon
- Latin (NAV)
- Colon ascendens
- Status
- A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria
Questions about the ascending (great) colon
- What is the Latin name of the ascending (great) colon?
- In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the ascending (great) colon is called Colon ascendens.
- Where is the ascending (great) colon of the horse?
- Ascending (great) colon is a digestive of the belly (abdomen), on the left side.
- What nerve supplies the ascending (great) colon?
- Vagus nerve and the cranial mesenteric plexus.
See the ascending (great) colon inside the whole horse.
Vetomica opens on this structure with every layer of the horse around it: peel back the skin and the muscles, cut a section through it, X-ray it, and practise naming it until you stop getting it wrong.
Free for 7 days, no card. After that the skeletons stay free.
