ascending colon

Section of colon which is distal to the cecum and proximal to the transversecolon.[FMA,modified]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the ascending colon is

Section of colon which is distal to the cecum and proximal to the transversecolon.[FMA,modified]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the ascending colon is

It sits within the digestive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What the ascending colon connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 7 kinds of connection. a kind of proximal-distal subdivision of colon.

Supply and innervation

Arterial supply: right colic artery. Venous drainage: right colic vein.

Also called

Also recorded as colon ascendens and spiral colon. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0001156, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• A kind of: proximal-distal subdivision of colon.
• Continuous with: transverse colon and caecum.
• contains: mucosa of ascending colon and submucosa of ascending colon.
• Develops from: midgut.
• overlaps: hepatic flexure of colon.
• Supplied by: right colic artery.
• Drained by: right colic vein.

Questions

Where is the ascending colon?

It sits within the digestive system. Positioned deliberately as part of this species body plan.

What does the ascending colon connect to?

A kind of: proximal-distal subdivision of colon.

Is the ascending colon the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.