The "'left colic flexure "'or splenic flexure ( as it is close to the spleen ) is the sharp bend between the transverse colon and the descending colon.
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It passes upward, opposite the colic valve, to the under surface of the right lobe of the liver, on the right of the gall-bladder, where it is lodged in a shallow depression, the colic impression; here it bends abruptly forward and to the left, forming the right colic flexure ( hepatic ) where it becomes the transverse colon.