Abdomen 2 Flashcards
What is visible on the left side of the horse?
- Stomach
- Liver
- Spleen
- Descending colon
- Jejunum
- Left dorsal colon
- Left ventral colon
What can you view on the right side of the horse?
- Liver
- Right kidney
- Descending duodenum
- Body of cecum
- Right ventral colon
- Right dorsal colon
What can you see on the ventral surface of the horse?
- Body of cecum
- Apex of cecum
- Right ventral colon
- Ventral diaphragmatic flexure
- Left ventral colon
- Dorsal diaphragmatic flexure
What is the mesentery?
Connect the dorsal body wall to the intestine
What is the omentum?
Connects other organs to the stomach
What is the greater omentum?
Attaches organs to the greater curvature of the stomach
What is the lesser omentum?
Attaches organs to the lesser curvature of the stomach
What are the different ligaments of the abdomen?
- Hepatogastric
- Hepatoduodenal
- Gastrosplenic
- Phrenicosplenic
- Gastrophrenic
- Renosplenic
What are the boundaries of the liver on the right side of the horse?
From the diaphragm to the right kidney
What are the boundaries of the liver on the left side of the horse?
Caudal to diaphragm under ribs 7-10
What are the lobes of the liver?
- Left lateral lobe
- Left medial lobe
- Quadrate
- Right lobe
- Caudate lobe
What are the ligaments of the liver?
- Hepatogastric
- Hepatoduodenal
- Hepatorenal
- Rt Triangular
- Lt Triangular
- Falciform
- Coronary
- Round
Where is the stomach located?
In the left half under the ribs. Fundus under the 15th rib. Lowest part around 9th or 10th rib. and cardia at about level of the 11th rib
Which kidney is farther cranially?
Right
WHat is the shape of the kidneys?
Heart shaped
Where is the right kidney?
Ventral to dorsal aspect of last 2 or 3 ribs
Where is the left kidney?
Ventral to dorsal aspect of last rib, medial to spleen and is palpable and bean shaped