Taenia omentalis

Looks like

One of three ribbons of lengthwise muscle on the colon, lying where the greater omentum attaches to the transverse colon.

What it does

Works with the other taeniae to shorten the colon and shape its pouches.

Keeping it well

All three taeniae meet at the base of the appendix, which surgeons use to find it.

Related conditions

• Acute mesenteric ischaemia (gut stroke)
• Appendicitis
• Botulism
• Bowel obstruction
• Chagas disease
• Chronic constipation
• Clostridioides difficile colitis
• Colon polyps
• Colorectal cancer
• Crohn's disease
• Diverticular disease
• Fibromyalgia
• Food poisoning
• Frailty & falls in older age
• Gastroenteritis
• Gastrointestinal bleeding
• Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
• Hereditary cancer syndromes (BRCA, Lynch)
• Infant colic
• Intussusception & pyloric stenosis
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Liver abscess (pyogenic and amoebic)
• Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
• Microscopic colitis
• Muscular dystrophy
• Necrotising enterocolitis
• Polymyalgia rheumatica
• Rhabdomyolysis
• Sarcoma
• Sarcopenia
• Tetanus
• Typhoid & cholera
• Ulcerative colitis