Descending colon
THE PART OF THE COLON FROM THE SPLENIC FLEXURE TO THE BEGINNING OF THE SIGMOID COLON
Descending iliac; Colon, descending; Colon descendens
In the anatomy of humans and homologous primates, the descending colon is the part of the colon from the splenic flexure to the beginning of the sigmoid colon. The function of the descending colon in the digestive system is to store the remains of digested food that will be emptied into the rectum.