page_title: Hindgut
hierarchical_section_title: Hindgut
caption_attribution_description: Primitive kidney and bladder, from a reconstruction. (After Schreiner.)
context_page_description: The hindgut is the posterior part of the alimentary canal. In mammals, it includes the distal third of the transverse colon and the splenic flexure, the descending colon, sigmoid colon and rectum. In zoology, the term hindgut refers also to the cecum and ascending colon.
context_section_description: The hindgut (or epigaster) is the posterior (caudal) part of the alimentary canal. In mammals, it includes the distal third of the transverse colon and the splenic flexure, the descending colon, sigmoid colon and rectum. In zoology, the term hindgut refers also to the cecum and ascending colon.
caption: Primitive kidney and bladder, from a reconstruction. (Hindgut labeled at upper right.)
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