A patient with diverticulosis of the colon presents for follow-up to his primary care physician with ongoing complaints of left lower quadrant pain and occasionally bloody stools. His physician begins workup with appropriating test by recalling that the sigmoid colon:

(A) Is drained by systemic veins
(B) Is a retroperitoneal organ
(C) Receives parasympathetic fibers from the vagus nerve
(D) Receives its blood from the superior mesenteric artery
(E) Has teniae coli and epiploic appendages


Ans:(E) Has teniae coli and epiploic appendages

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