•mesentery (the membrane that attaches the intestines to the wall of the abdomen, maintaining their position in the abdominal cavity, and supplying them with blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics)
köken: From late Middle High German gekrœse (“(small) bowels”), itself a compound of ge- + krœs(e). Compare kraus, Middle Low German krȫse, Dutch croos (“bowels, entrails, guts”).
köken: Uncertain. Related to бу́ла (búla, “Turkish woman”), so the meaning may have shifted by metonymy to refer to certain types of face veils that Turkish women once wore (e.g. yashmak).