3 Peritoneal Cavity And Mesenteries

Question 1

The parietal peritoneum is sensitive to

Answer 1

Pressure and temperature

Question 2

What is the visceral peritoneum sensitive to

Answer 2

Stretch and chemical irritation

Question 3

In the __________ peritoneum pain is well localized and in the _____________ peritoneum the pain is poorly localized

Answer 3

Parietal; visceral

Question 4

What supplies the parietal peritioneum

Answer 4

Same neurovasculature as the region of the wall it lines

Question 5

What supplies the visceral peritoneum

Answer 5

Same neurovasculature as the organ

Question 6

What does the foregut form

Answer 6

Primordial pharynx, esophagus, stomach, duodenum, liver, billiary apparatus, and pancreas

Question 7

What direction dose the ventral mesogastrium/mesentery rotate

Answer 7

Right

Question 8

What direction does the dorsal mesogastrium/mesentery rotate

Answer 8

Left

Question 9

What organ forms in the ventral mesogastrium

Answer 9

Liver

Question 10

What organ forms in the dorsal mesogastrium

Answer 10

Spleen

Question 11

What is the separate pertioneal cavity behind the stomach called

Answer 11

Lesser sac

Question 12

What are intraperitoneal organs

Answer 12

Organs that are almost entirely covered by visceral peritoneum

Question 13

What are retroperitoneal organs

Answer 13

Organs between the parietal peritoneum and posterior abdominal wall

Question 14

Which organ only has parietal peritoneum only on the anterior surface

Answer 14

Kidneys

Question 15

What are primarily retroperitoneal organs? Secondarily?

Answer 15

P - no mesentery

S - initially had mesentery but lost during development

Question 16

What are the main primarily peritoneal organs

Answer 16

SAD PUCKER

Suprarenal gland
Aorta/IVC
Duodenum

Pancreas
Ureter
Colon (ascending and desecending)
Kidney
Esophagus
Rectum

Question 17

What is the greater omentum

Answer 17

Four-layered peritoneal fold that hands like an apron from the greater curvature of the stomach

Question 18

What does the greater omentum connect to

Answer 18

Greater curvature of the stomach and attaches to the transverse colon

Question 19

What does the lesser omentum connect to

Answer 19

Lesser curvature of the stomach and proximal duodenum to the liver

Connects stomach to the portal triad

Question 20

What connnects the liver to the anterior abdominal wall? Stomach? Duodenum?

Answer 20

AAW - falciform ligament
S - hepatogastric ligament
D - hepatoduodenal ligament

Question 21

What do the hepatogastric and hepatodudodenal ligaments make

Answer 21

Lesser omentum

Question 22

What connects the stomach to the inferior diaphragm? Spleen? Transverse colon?

Answer 22

ID - gastrophrenic ligament
S - gastrosplenic ligament
TC - gastrocolic ligament

Question 23

What do the gastrophrenic, gastrosplenic, and gastrocolic ligaments make up

Answer 23

Greater omentum

Question 24

What is the the greater sac

Answer 24

Main and larger part of the peritoneal cavity

Question 25

What is the omental bursa

Answer 25

Lesser sac that lies posterior to stomach and lesser curvature

Question 26

What does the supracolic compartment contain

Answer 26

Stomach, liver, and spleen

Question 27

What does the infracolic compartment contain

Answer 27

Small intestine and ascending/descending colon

Question 28

Where is the infracolic compartment

Answer 28

Lies posterior to greater omentum and is divided into right and left infracolic spaces

Question 29

From lateral to medial, what is the arrangement of paracolic spaces and gutters

Answer 29

R paracolic gutter, R infracolic space, L infracolic space, L paracolic gutter

Question 30

Which paracolic gutter is smaller? Why?

Answer 30

Left,, phrenicolic ligament

Question 31

What limits the superior recess of the lesser sac

Answer 31

Limited superiorly by the diaphragm and coronary ligament of the liver

Question 32

Where is the inferior recess of the lesser sac

Answer 32

Between superior parts of the layers of the greater omentum

Question 33

What are the boundaries of the epicloic foramen

Answer 33

Anterior - lesser omentum, stomach, and gastrocolic ligament Posterior - pancreas, L suprarenal gland, L kidney, aorta, IVC, splenic A/V Superior - liver and diaphragm Inferior - transverse mesocolon, 1st part of duodenum L - hilum of spleen and gastrosplenic ligament R - eplicloic foramen opens into greater sac

Question 34

What is peritonitis

Answer 34

Infection of the peritoneal cavity from external wound or ruptured organ

Question 35

What is ascites

Answer 35

Fluid collection in the peritoneal cavity

Question 36

What can be used to drain ascites

Answer 36

Abdominal paracentesis

Question 37

What portions of the pancreas are retroperitoneal

Answer 37

Head w/ uncinate process, neck, and body

Question 38

The tail of the pancreas is

Answer 38

Intraperitoneal

Question 39

What is anterior to the pancreas

Answer 39

Lesser sac and stomach

Question 40

What is posterior to pancreas

Answer 40

Aorta/IVC, splenic V, bile duct, R crus of diaphragm, L kidney and vessels, L suprarenal gland, SMA/SMV

Question 41

What is to the right of the pancreas

Answer 41

2nd part of duodenum

Question 42

What is left of the pancreas

Answer 42

Spleen

Question 43

What is inferior to the pancreas

Answer 43

3rd part of the duodenum

Question 44

What ligament is associated with the splenic A/V

Answer 44

Splenorenal ligament

Question 45

What ligament is the R gastric A associated with

Answer 45

Hepatoduodenal ligament

Question 46

What ligament is the left gastric a associated with

Answer 46

Hepatogastric ligament

Question 47

What ligament is the proper hepatic a associated with

Answer 47

Hepatoduodenal ligament