Abdomen 1 Part 2

Question 1

accessory organs of the digestive tract include?

Answer 1

• liver
• gallbladder
• pancreas

~ these viscera develop as outgrowths of the gut tube

Question 2

liver

Answer 2

the largest gland and the second largest organ in the body (the skin is the largest organ)

• receives, metabolizes, and stores breakdown products of digestion
• secretes bile which is stored in the gallbladder

Question 3

falciform ligament

Answer 3

divides the liver into right and left lobes

Question 4

inferior aspect of falciform ligament

Question 5

round ligament of the liver

Answer 5

at the inferior aspect of the falciform ligament and connect the liver to the anterior abdominal wall

Question 6

quadrate lobe

Answer 6

between the falciform ligament and the gallbladder

Question 7

caudate lobe

Answer 7

is a small lobe on the posterior
aspect of the liver between the ligamentum venosum and the IVC

Question 8

the ligamentum venosum is a remnant of ?

Answer 8

ductus venosus

Question 9

porta hepatis

Answer 9

region of the liver where lesser omentum attaches and that transmits blood vessels and bile ducts to and form liver

Question 10

portal triad

Answer 10

consists of:
- proper hepatic artery
- hepatic portal vein
- common bile duct

Question 11

gallbladder

Answer 11

a muscular sac that stores and concentrates bile between meals

Question 12

how is bile transported from the liver to gallbaldder?

Answer 12

hepatic and cystic ducts

Question 13

right and left hepatic ducts join to form

Answer 13

common hepatic duct

Question 14

cystic duct

Answer 14

connects gallbladder to the common hepatic duct

Question 15

common bile duct

Answer 15

formed by the cystic and common
hepatic ducts joining

Question 16

common bile duct is joined

Answer 16

by the main pancreatic duct to form the ampulla of vater

Question 17

major duodenal papilla

Answer 17

-opening of the ampulla of vater in the duodenum

Question 18

sphincter of oddi

Answer 18

regulates the release of bile from the ampulla of vater

Question 19

pancreas

Answer 19

retroperitoneal organ (except the tail) along the posterior abdominal
wall

three parts:
- head
- body
- tail

Question 20

head of pancreas

Answer 20

cradled in the C-shaped concavity of the duodenum

Question 21

tail of pancreas

Answer 21

extends laterally to the let toward the spleen

Question 22

the pancreas has both ____ and ____ functions?

Answer 22

exocrine and endocrine

Question 23

spleen

Answer 23

is part of the immune system rather than the digesive system; however, it is located in the abdominal cavity

• filters blood cells and is involved in immune responses