Travels downward on the left side, to the next curve in the colon, called the sigmoid colon.    From Wordnik.com.  [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference

They contained numerous sigmoid earthworm chaetae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

Tony, after all, has to save up for the gold sigmoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Snow: There Is Too Much Focus on Kidnapped U.S. Soldiers] Reference

The flushing of the rectum, sigmoid flexure and colon with water is not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference

A local incision was chosen, as the wound was presumably in the sigmoid flexure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

The dose-response curve normally takes the form of a sigmoid curve (see Figure 3).    From Wordnik.com.  [Dose-response relationship] Reference

The rectal muscular fibres perform the office of a sphincter for the sigmoid cavity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference

Matter accumulating habitually in the sigmoid flexure of the colon may cause a hydrocele, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

One of them may occupy the cecum, another the transverse colon, and possibly a third the sigmoid flexure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference

The curbs are sharp and perpendicular, not like the American smoothly molded sigmoid-cross-section curves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Piezo Array] Reference

I was a bit nervous before getting a sigmoid colonoscopy, but not before any regular doctor or dentist visit.    From Wordnik.com.  [DesignerBlog] Reference

It is possible that a wound in the sigmoid flexure was present which had already closed at the time of operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

These vessels or reservoirs are the stomach, duodenum, small intestines, colon, sigmoid flexure, and too often the rectum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference

The disturbance and danger are enhanced when the tissues of the sigmoid flexure and the rectum are invaded by inflammation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference

I have personally disassembled the large and small intestines of between a half dozen and a dozen dead humans, pyloric to sigmoid.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enema Of My Enema Is My Friend] Reference

"'Self-replicating information strings evolve as a sigmoid-difference function of replication error rate and generation time'" Two fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

Thus a considerable lump may be found in the cecum or sigmoid flexure and the rest of the colon be comparatively clear of any gross accumulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference

Fig. 38, 1, represents a soft-nosed Lee-Metford removed from just below the lesser sigmoid cavity of the ulna, after it had perforated the elbow-joint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

The constriction is especially severe at the junction of the rectum with the sigmoid colon, where it flexes upon itself in the region where the bore of the rectum is less.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference

Dam up the colon or sigmoid and digestion is disturbed, diminished and debased, as evidenced by the local and general discomfort, and later by the train of inevitable disorders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference

N hid Non-linear sigmoid function: F (v) = 1/(1 + e-v).    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Chapman mentions a case in which the liver was displaced by dilatation of the sigmoid flexure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

We first analyzed the data by fitting a sigmoid through the time course associated with each origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

The threshold-sigmoid function matches a power-law function over a large portion of its dynamic range.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Each sigmoid yields a trep and twidth (defined as the time for the origin locus to go from 25 to 75 % replicated).    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

The serous membranes were all callous and thickened, and the canal of the sigmoid flexure was totally obliterated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

The autopsy showed the sigmoid flexure gone, and from the caput ceci to the termination the colon only measured 14 inches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Proctosigmoiditis is inflammation of the rectum and the sigmoid colon, which is a small part of the colon next to the rectum.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

Masters has seen a child who lived nine days in whom the sigmoid flexure of the colon terminated in the fundus of the bladder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference