21 Flashcards
What is the peritoneum
A serous membrane
What does the partial layer line?
The body wall
What does the visceral layer line
The organs
What is between the parietal and visceral layer
Fluid filled spaces
Where is the retroperitoneal ?
- posterior to the peritonitium
What is a Mesentery
Double layer of visceral peritoneum that connects organ to body wall
(Holding it in place)
Omenta
Double layer of visceral peritoneum that connects an organ to another organ (one organ will always be the stomach)
Lesser omentum: connects liver to stomach
Greater omentum: connects stomach to the transverse colon (folds over small intestine like an ape Ron
The stomach is a _-shaped organ
J-shaped
Where is the stomach located?
At the base of the esophagus
Where does the esophagus pass through
The diaphragm
- esophageal hiatus
What is the esophagus passing throug diaphragm called
Esophageal hiatus
What prevents reflux
Lower esophageal sphincter
What does the Lower esophageal sphincter do?
Prevents reflux
4 main parts of the stomach
- cardia
- fundus
- body
- Phylorus (pyloric antrum)
Mucosa is modified for
Secretion
What allows for expansion ?
Temporary folds (rugae)
What does the extra muscular is layer (oblique) allow for?
Motility
What controls the passage into the duodenum
Phyloric sphincter
Omentum
a double
layer of peritoneum
that connects one
organ to another
Lesser omentum:
Stomach to liver
• Greater omentum:
Stomach to
transverse colon
The muscularis is modified for
Motility