Abdomen

Question 0

What is the function of mesentries?

Answer 0

provide a means for neurovascular communication between the organ and the body wall

Question 1

TRUE or FALSE?

There are no organs in the peritoneal cavity.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Where is the greater omentum?

Answer 2

extends superiorly, laterally to the left, and inferiorly from the greater curvature of the stomach and the proximal part of the duodenum

Question 3

What are the three parts of the greater omentum?

Answer 3

gastrophrenic ligament, gastrosplenic ligament, and gastrocolic ligament

Question 4

Where is the lesser omentum?

Answer 4

connects the lesser curvature of the stomach and the proximal part of the duodenum to the liver

Question 5

What forms the GI tract?

Answer 5

the esophagus, stomach, and intestine

Question 6

What is peristalsis?

Answer 6

series of ring-like contraction waves; responsible for mixing masticated food and emptying contents of stomach

Question 7

What are the parts of the small intestine?

Answer 7

duodenum, jejunum, and ileum

Question 8

What are the parts of the large intestine?

Answer 8

cecum, appendix, colon, rectum, and anal canal

Question 9

What does the abdominal aorta supply?

Answer 9

GI tract, spleen, pancreas, gallbladder, and liver

Question 10

What are the main branches of the abdominal aorta?

Answer 10

celiac trunk, and superior and inferior mesenteric arteries

Question 11

What is the portal venous system?

Answer 11

collects blood from the abdominal part of the GI tract, pancreas, spleen, and most of gallbladder, and carries it to the liver

Question 12

What is the main channel of the portal venous system?

Answer 12

hepatic portal vein

Question 13

What forms the hepatic portal vein?

Answer 13

superior mesenteric and splenic vein

Question 14

What supplies the abdominal part of the esophagus?

Answer 14

esophageal branches of the left gastric artery (branch of celiac trunk), and left inferior phrenic artery

Question 15

What are the parts of the stomach?

Answer 15

cardia, fundus, body, and pyloric part

Question 16

What are the curvatures of the stomach?

Answer 16

lesser and greater curvature

Question 17

What is the cardia?

Answer 17

surrounds the opening of the esophagus into the stomach (cardial orifice)

Question 18

What is the fundus?

Answer 18

dilated superior part of the stomach; related to the left dome of the diaphragm

Question 19

What is the function of the pylorus?

Answer 19

controls discharge of the stomach contents into the duodenum

Question 20

What is the origin of the celiac trunk?

Answer 20

abdominal aorta (T12)

Question 21

What is the origin of the left gastric artery?

Answer 21

celiac trunk

Question 22

What is the origin of the splenic artery?

Answer 22

celiac trunk

Question 23

What is the origin of the right gastric artery?

Answer 23

hepatic artery

Question 24

What is the origin of the gastroduodenal artery?

Answer 24

hepatic artery

Question 25

What does the celiac trunk supply?

Answer 25

esophagus, stomach, duodenum, liver, and pancreas

Question 26

What does the left gastric artery supply?

Answer 26

distal portion of esophagus and left portion of lesser curvature of stomach

Question 27

What does the splenic artery supply?

Answer 27

body of pancreas, spleen, and greater curvature of stomach

Question 28

What is the origin of the hepatic artery?

Answer 28

celiac trunk

Question 29

What does the hepatic artery supply?

Answer 29

liver, gallbladder, stomach, pancreas, duodenum, and respective lobes of liver

Question 30

What does the right gastric artery supply?

Answer 30

right portion of lesser curvature of stomach

Question 31

What does the gastroduodenal artery supply?

Answer 31

stomach, pancreas, first part of duodenum, and distal part of bile duct

Question 32

What is the ileocecal junction?

Answer 32

where the ileum joins the cecum; the first part of the large intestine

Question 33

What is the origin of the superior mesenteric artery?

Answer 33

abdominal aorta (L1)

Question 34

What is the origin of the inferior mesenteric artery?

Answer 34

abdominal aorta (L3)

Question 35

What does the superior mesenteric artery supply?

Answer 35

part of the gastrointestinal tract derived from midgut

Question 36

What does the inferior mesenteric artery supply?

Answer 36

descending colon

Question 37

What is the mesentery of the transverse colon?

Answer 37

transverse mesocolon

Question 38

What is the sigmoid colon?

Answer 38

links the descending colon and the rectum