The transverse colon passes horizontally to the left toward the spleen and turns downward (splenic flexure) to the descending colon.

横结肠水平向脾脏，向下（通过脾曲）成为降结肠。

Even in the rude circumferential rim or wall of wax round a growing comb, flexures may sometimes be observed, corresponding in position to the planes of the rhombic basal plates of future cells.

即使在生中的梳子周围粗糙的圆周边缘或蜡壁中，有时也可到弯曲， 其位置与未来细胞的菱形基底板的平相对应。