Right ventral colon

Colon ventrale dextrum

  • digestive
  • Belly
  • Single, on the midline
  • Horse

About the right ventral colon of the horse

Right ventral colon is a digestive of the belly (abdomen), a single structure on the midline. Its name in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria is Colon ventrale dextrum. You can turn it above, see it in place in the belly of the horse, and open it inside the whole animal in Vetomica.

Terminology

English
Right ventral colon
Latin (NAV)
Colon ventrale dextrum
Status
A valid term in the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria

Questions about the right ventral colon

What is the Latin name of the right ventral colon?
In the Nomina Anatomica Veterinaria, the right ventral colon is called Colon ventrale dextrum.
Where is the right ventral colon of the horse?
Right ventral colon is a digestive of the belly (abdomen), a single structure on the midline.

See the right ventral 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.

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