Mesenteric Artery, Inferior
"Mesenteric Artery, Inferior" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The artery supplying nearly all the left half of the transverse colon, the whole of the descending colon, the sigmoid colon, and the greater part of the rectum. It is smaller than the superior mesenteric artery (MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR) and arises from the aorta above its bifurcation into the common iliac arteries.
| Descriptor ID |
D017537
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
A07.231.114.565.510
|
| Concept/Terms |
Mesenteric Artery, Inferior- Mesenteric Artery, Inferior
- Arteries, Inferior Mesenteric
- Artery, Inferior Mesenteric
- Inferior Mesenteric Arteries
- Inferior Mesenteric Artery
- Mesenteric Arteries, Inferior
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Mesenteric Artery, Inferior".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Mesenteric Artery, Inferior".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Mesenteric Artery, Inferior" by people in this website by year, and whether "Mesenteric Artery, Inferior" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
![]()
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Mesenteric Artery, Inferior" by people in Profiles.