<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Anatomical terminology (edit on Wikidata) </Td> </Tr> <P> The ascending colon is the part of the colon located between the cecum and the transverse colon . </P> <P> The ascending colon is smaller in calibre than the cecum from where it starts . 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 . </P> <P> It is retained in contact with the posterior wall of the abdomen by the peritoneum, which covers its anterior surface and sides, its posterior surface being connected by loose areolar tissue with the iliacus, quadratus lumborum, aponeurotic origin of transversus abdominis, and with the front of the lower and lateral part of the right kidney . </P>

Where is the ascending colon located in the human body
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