{"id":1637,"date":"2017-05-25T05:37:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T12:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2017-05-25T12:57:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T19:57:49","slug":"ascending-colon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2017\/05\/25\/ascending-colon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ascending, Transverse, Descending Colon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The small intestine connects to the colon where a valve regulates the movement of food. \u00a0The <strong>ileocecal valve<\/strong> is named for the <strong>ileum<\/strong> and the <strong>cecum<\/strong> it connects to. \u00a0The cecum is a pouch-like section of the large intestine that is the first\u00a0part of the colon, also called the large intestine. \u00a0 \u00a0In humans, the appendix is attached to the cecum. \u00a0The image shown reveals the three main sections of the colon of a cat. \u00a0As the colon moves towards the head, it is called the <strong>ascending colon<\/strong>. \u00a0It then moves laterally across the abdomen where it is called the <strong>transverse colon<\/strong> and finally makes the turn to head toward the posterior of the body, the <strong>descending colon<\/strong>. \u00a0 The colon is responsible for resabsorption of water and collect undigested waste \u00a0for elimination. \u00a0 The <strong>rectum<\/strong> is the last area of the large intestine where waste is stored prior to being eliminated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/colon-ascending2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1640 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/colon-ascending2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/colon-ascending2.png 900w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/colon-ascending2-250x141.png 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/colon-ascending2-500x281.png 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/colon-ascending2-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In this photo, the small intestine has been removed except for the small section connected to the cecum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The small intestine connects to the colon where a valve regulates the movement of food. \u00a0The ileocecal valve is named for the ileum and the cecum it connects to. \u00a0The cecum is a pouch-like section of the large intestine that is the first\u00a0part of the colon, also called the large intestine. \u00a0 \u00a0In humans, the appendix is attached to the cecum. \u00a0The image shown reveals the three main sections of the colon of a cat. \u00a0As the colon moves towards the head, it is called the ascending colon. \u00a0It then moves laterally across the abdomen where it is called the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[124,33,34,125,377,37,98],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-ascending","tag-cecum","tag-colon","tag-descending","tag-ileocecal","tag-ileum","tag-transverse","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}