Sydney is a somewhat prominent first name for males (#848 out of 1220, Top 69%) and an even more prominent surname for all people (#35797 out of 150436, Top 24%). (2000 U.S. Census). Charted below is the birth name popularity of Sydney for boys.
The sigmoid colon is a curved, S-shaped region of the large intestine and is the final segment of the colon. It transports fecal matter from the descending colon to the rectum and anus. Feces are stored in the sigmoid colon until they are ready to be eliminated from the body through the anal canal.
Did You Know? The shape sense of sigmoid is most often used in scientific contexts to describe an s-shaped curve on a graph. Usually, though, sigmoid is used in contexts relating to the sigmoid colon-the contracted and crooked part of the colon immediately above the rectum. Sigmoid comes from sigma, the name of the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet.