Tags: Anatomical Structure, Ligament.
A fold of peritoneum the phrenicocolic ligament is continued from the left colic flexure to the thoracic diaphragm opposite the tenth and eleventh ribs; it passes below and serves to support the spleen and therefore has received the name of sustentaculum lienis.The phrenicocolic ligament is also called Hensing’s ligament after Friedrich Wilhelm Hensing (* 1719; † 1745) a German professor for medicine in Gießen.
