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Colic arteries supply blood to colon.
Human colon has different portions (ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon and sigmoid colon).
Right colic artery supplies blood to ascending colon.
Middle colic artery supplies blood to tranverse colon.
Left colic artery supplies blood to the descending colon.
Sigmoid arteries (two or three) supplies blood to sigmoid colon.
The right colic and middle colic arteries are branches of superior mesentric artery.
The left coliac artery and sigmoid arteries are branches of inferior esentric artery.
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