Abdomen and pelvic area

Question 1

Where does the abdomen start?

Answer 1

Diaphragm

Question 2

What is the abdominal wall?

Answer 2

A muscular wall

Question 3

Which are the bones in the abdomen?

Answer 3

Only the lumbar part of the spine

Question 4

How many regions of the abdomen?

Answer 4

9

Question 5

What divides the abdomen into it’s regions?

Answer 5

The mdiclavicular lines
Subcostal plane
Supracrestal plane

Question 6

What are the most of the muscles in the abdominal wall?

Answer 6

Large

Question 7

What is the linea alba?

Answer 7

The line formed by the crossing of the left and right external and internal oblique and transversus abdominal aponeurosis.
It is like a ligament but not. true ligament

Question 8

What does the linea alba attach to?

Answer 8

The diploid process inferiorly
The superficial inguinal ring superiorly

Question 9

Where are the fibers of the external oblique? anterior or posterior?
Superior to the arcuate line

Answer 9

All anterior

Question 10

Where are the fibers of the transversus oblique? anterior or Posterior?
Superior to the arcuate line

Answer 10

All posterior

Question 11

Where are the fibers of the internal oblique? anterior or posterior?
Superior to the arcuate line

Answer 11

Splits into two sheets, one that goes above and one that goes below

Question 12

What does the psoas muscle fuse together with?

Answer 12

The illiacus

Question 13

What is the part where the iliacus and psoas are fused together called?

Answer 13

Illiopsoas

Question 14

What does the illiopsoas muscle do?

Answer 14

Flexion of the hip
Most powerful flexion of hip

Question 15

What is the origins of the psoas muscle?

Answer 15

The lumbar vertebrae

Question 16

Where does the illiac bone originate?

Answer 16

Hip bone

Question 17

What is the part of the iliac we can feel called?

Answer 17

The anterior superior iliac spine

Question 18

What is the fibrous ligament called that connects the anterior superior iliac spine and the pubic tubercle?

Answer 18

Inguinal ligament

Question 19

Where is the abdomen situated?

Answer 19

Between the thorax and pelvis area

Question 20

Where does the abdominopelvic line go?

Answer 20

The superior border of the cubic symphysis to anterior superior iliac spine following the inguinal fold, proceeds along the iliac crest and reaches the apex of spinous process of the fifth lumbar vertebra

Question 21

What is the abdominal wall formed by?

Answer 21

Aponeurotic and muscular structures organised into layers

Question 22

What are the two superficial regions of the abdominal wall called?

Answer 22

Anterolateral and lumbar vertebral regions

Question 23

Name of the serous space in the abdominal cavity

Answer 23

Peritoneal cavity

Question 24

Difference between the peritoneal cavity in men and women?

Answer 24

In males it is completely inclosed
In females it communicates to the outside through the tubal, uterine and vaginal cavities

Question 25

What are the mesenteries?

Answer 25

Fold with particularly significant thickness and length
Contain vascular, lymphatic and nervous formations

Question 26

What are divides the peritoneal cavity into two?

Answer 26

Transverse colon and its mesentery (transverse mesocolon)

Question 27

Different name for the lesser sac of the peritoneal cavity?

Answer 27

Omental bursa

Question 28

Name of the part of the abdominal cavity between the parietal peritoneum and the posterior abdominal wall

Answer 28

Retroperitoneal space

Question 29

3 ways to define organs housed in the abdominal cavity

Answer 29

Intra peritoneal (covered by visceral peritoneum, like the liver)
Extraperitoneum (no relationship with the peritoneum, like ovary)
Retroperitoneal (when part of the organ surface relates to peritoneum, like pancreas and kidneys)

Question 30

What is the inferior/boney part of the pelvis called?

Answer 30

Lesser pelvis
True pelvis

Question 31

What is the part of the pelvis that houses thes abdominal viscera called?

Answer 31

Greater pelvis
False pelvis

Question 32

What forms the perineum?

Answer 32

The soft parts situated under the pelvic diaphragm

Question 33

What shape is the perineum?

Answer 33

Diamond shaped

Question 34

Two regions of the perineum?

Answer 34

Urogenital triangle
Anal triangle

Question 35

What forms the pelvis diaphragm?

Answer 35

Levator ani
Ischiococcygeus

Question 36

Which anal sphincter is under involuntary control? Internal or external?

Answer 36

The internal

Question 37

Where is the urogenital diaphragm located in relations to the pelvic diaphragm?

Answer 37

Inferiorly