 FACT: During the Gross Anatomy dissection, the medical students are  told to remove the ascending colon to the transverse colon, then to  continue to the sigmoid colon until reaching the appendix. The  appendix is located on the right side of the colon, at the beginning  of the ascending colon. The above description would put it on the  left side, near the end of the sigmoid (the last part of the colon  before the rectum).