Right colic flexure
Flexura dextra coli
- Latin synonym: Flexura hepatica coli
- Synonym: Hepatic flexure
Definition
The ascending colon bends abruptly forward and to the left, to the under surface of the right lobe of the liver, on the right of the gall-bladder, where it is lodged in a shallow depression, the colic impression, forming the right colic (hepatic) flexure.
References
This definition incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy (20th U.S. edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, published in 1918 – from http://www.bartleby.com/107/).
