mesentery
‘a membrane in the middle of the intestines’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. mesentarie, misentery, mesenterie < Medical Lat. mesenterium ‘middle of the intestine’ < Medical Gk. mesenterion ‘the middle intestine’ < mesos ‘middle’ + enteron ‘intestine’ < enter- < uhn < en < Tamil il-iṉ
Other meanings: Anatomy and Zoology: originally: the folded sheet of peritoneum in which the jejunum and ileum are suspended from the dorsal abdominal wall; Zoology: in invertebrate animals: any of various tissues which separate the body cavity or coelom into sections.