Anatom3DDescending colon
Colon descendens · Sestupný tračník
Digestive system
Looks like
The part of the large bowel running down the left side of the belly to the sigmoid colon.
What it does
Stores and moves firmer stool towards the rectum.
Keeping it well
Diverticula form here and on the sigmoid with age; left-sided lower pain with fever may be diverticulitis and needs assessment.
Related conditions
- Acute mesenteric ischaemia (gut stroke)
- Appendicitis
- Bowel obstruction
- Chagas disease
- Chronic constipation
- Clostridioides difficile colitis
- Colon polyps
- Colorectal cancer
- Crohn's disease
- Diverticular disease
- Food poisoning
- Gastroenteritis
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Hereditary cancer syndromes (BRCA, Lynch)
- Infant colic
- Intussusception & pyloric stenosis
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Ischaemic colitis
- Liver abscess (pyogenic and amoebic)
- Microscopic colitis
- Necrotising enterocolitis
- Typhoid & cholera
- Ulcerative colitis