Meanings of sigmoid flexure in English

This will reduce the displacement of the sigmoid flexure, besides giving relief.

The serous membranes were all callous and thickened, and the canal of the sigmoid flexure was totally obliterated.

It was necessary to perform abdominal section through the linea alba, divide the sigmoid flexure, and thus remove the bottle.

The autopsy showed the sigmoid flexure gone, and from the caput ceci to the termination the colon only measured 14 inches.

An over-distended caecum, or sigmoid flexure, from pressure, may produce dropsy, numbness or cramps in the right or left lower extremity.

The accumulation of hardened faecal matter distends the sigmoid flexure, causing inflammation, until from its own weight it falls down, producing prolapse of the bowels.

Sigmoid Flexure, the last curve of the Colon before it terminates in the Rectum.