Phrase guide

descending colon

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

No pronunciation record was provided for this word.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A part of the colon adjacent to the sigmoid colon.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the part of the large intestine that descends from the transverse colon to the sigmoid colon

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: colon

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

9 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: низходящо ободно черво (nizhodjašto obodno červo) — part of colon
  • Catalan: còlon descendent — part of colon
  • Chinese Mandarin: 降结肠 (jiangjiechang) — part of colon
  • Chinese Mandarin: 降結腸 /降结肠 (jiàngjiécháng) — part of colon
  • Czech: sestupný tračník — part of colon
  • French: côlon descendant — part of colon
  • Hungarian: leszálló vastagbél — part of colon
  • Northern Kurdish: kolona dakêşayî — part of colon
  • Polish: zstępnica — part of colon