While working in a veterinary hospital you were asked to assist with a necropsy of a pig that died for unknown reasons. While examining the intestine, you note a sharply coiled section of intestine immediately aboral to the cecum. What is the anatomic designation of this structure?

A) the spiral colon, a section of the large intestine
B) The transverse colon, a section of the small intestine
C) The short colon, a section of the large intestine
D) The small colon, a section of the small intestine


A) the spiral colon, a section of the large intestine

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