A portion of the large intestine before it becomes the rectum. In mammals, the colon is the most part of the large intestine, excluding the vermiform appendix, the rectum and the anal canal. [ http://zfin.org/curator http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colon_(anatomy) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2825-0621 ]
Synonyms: large bowel
Term information
- BTO:0000269
- CALOHA:TS-0158
- EMAPA:18939
- XAO:0000243
- AAO:0010400
- MAP:0000001
- TAO:0000706
- Wikipedia:Colon_(anatomy)
- ZFA:0000706
- MA:0000335
- FMA:14543
- EFO:0000361
- GAID:309
- UMLS:C0009368 (ncithesaurus:Colon)
- galen:Colon
- OpenCyc:Mx4rvgLEM5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA
- NCIT:C12382
- MAT:0000526
- VHOG:0000648
- SCTID:302508007
- MESH:D003106
- EV:0100079
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, vertebrate_core
The posterior intestine has short longitudinally arranged epithelial folds which are similar to the colon of higher vertebrates. Wallace et al, 2005.[TAO]
The last portion of the digestive system, it extracts water and salt from solid wastes before they are eliminated from the body.[AAO]
Although all vertebrates have a digestive tract and accessory glands, various parts of this system are not necessarily homologous, analogous, or even present in all species. Therefore, broad comparisons can be best made under the listings of headgut, foregut, midgut, pancreas and biliary system, hindgut.[uncertain][VHOG]
In zebrafish, the posterior intestine has short longitudinally arranged epithelial folds which are similar to the colon of higher vertebrates[ZFIN]
In mammals, the colon consists of four sections: the ascending colon, the transverse colon, the descending colon, and the sigmoid colon[WP]
it extracts water and salt from solid wastes before they are eliminated from the body[WP]
TODO - abstract this such that it legitimately covers all vertebrates
Some references do not consider the caecum to be part of the colon.
Term relations
- subdivision of digestive tract
- contributes to morphology of some large intestine
- part of some large intestine
- only in taxon some Vertebrata