横おう行こう結けっ腸ちょう

Kanji

• 横sideways, side, horizontal
• 行going, journey, carry out
• 結tie, bind, contract
• 腸intestines, guts, bowels

Similar words

• 上じょう行こう結けっ腸ちょう

  Ascending colon; the part of the large intestine that goes upward from the cecum.

• 下か行こう結けっ腸ちょう

  Descending colon; the part that goes downward toward the sigmoid colon.

• 結けっ腸ちょう

  Colon; the general term for the main part of the large intestine, of which the transverse colon is a segment.

Etymology

Compound of 横行 (おうこう, 'horizontal') and 結腸 (けっちょう, 'colon'), reflecting its anatomical position.