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What makes up the abdominal cavity?

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Abdominal wall, diaphragm, pelvic inlet

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What makes up the peritoneal cavity?

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Space Between parietal and visceral peritoneum

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What makes up the retroperitoneal cavity?

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Some digestive tract/urinary/cardiovascular/reproductive system

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What wraps and fixes organs in the abdominal and pelvic cavity?

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Serous membrane

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What is the greater omentum?

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Visceral peritoneum folding from stomach greater curvature

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What is the lesser omentum?

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Visceral peritoneum folding from stomach lesser curvature to liver

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What is in the Greater Sac?

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intraperitoneal organs

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What is in the Lesser sac?

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nothing, empty

recess bounded by greater and lesser omentum

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What does the omental foramen connect?

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Greater and Lesser sac (foramen of winslow)

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What is the hepatoduodenal ligament?

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Holds together the portal triads (hepatic artery proper, hepatic portal vein, common bile duct)

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The digestive system excludes the _____

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spleen

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What is in the foregut?

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Abdominal esophagus, stomach, liver,1/2 duodenum, pancreas, spleen

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What is in the midgut

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1/2 duodenum, jejunum, ileum, cecum/appendix, ascending colon, 2/3 proximal transverse colon

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What is in the hind gut?

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1/3 distal transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon, rectum, anus

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When does the foregut rotate? How much?

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3rd month. 90 degrees.

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What plane does the foregut rotate in?

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TRANSVERSE PLANE

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Which vagus nerve is posterior in the thorax due to rotation of foregut?

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Right vagus

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** Which plane does the formation of lesser and greater peritoneal sac occur in? **

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Coronal plane

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What happens to the spleen during rotation of foregut?

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Wrapped into the visceral membrane

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Where does the esophagus cross the diaphragm and at which level of the vertebral column?

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T10

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How many degrees does the midgut rotate?

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270

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** What happens if the rotation of the midgut occurs after just 180 degrees? **

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appendix under liver, pain still around McBurney’s point.
Disarranged alignment, splanchnic nerves mixed.

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Intraperitoneal organs are in the visceral peritoneum. What kind of movement does this allow?

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Free movement

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Retroperitoneal organs are outside of parietal peritoneum. What kind of movement does this allow?

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None, fixed to abdominal wall

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What organs are intraperitoneal?
esophagus, stomach, jejunum, ileum, caecum, appendix, transverse and the sigmoid colon, part of the liver and spleen.
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What organs are retroperitoneal?
Duodenum, pancreas, kidneys, ascending and descending colon, rectum, and anus
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Primary retroperitoneal organs originate where?
Outside of parietal peritoneum. Mesoderm.
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Which organs are primary retroperitoneal?
Distal rectum Kidneys, ureters Adrenal glands Great vessles: IVC, AA Testes/ovary before descending to scrotum/pelvis
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Where do secondary retroperitoneal organs originate?
spinned out of peritoneum, endoderm
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Which organs are secondary retroperitoneal?
¾ duodenum Pancreas (tail in hilum of spleen) Ascending colon Descending colon
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** Why is the spleen special? **
Spleen: primary retroperitoneal organ “spinned” into visceral peritoneum
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Where is the short gastric artery?
Fundus of stomach, supplies foregut
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Anterior vagal plexus on the stomach is derived from right or left vagus nerve and WHY?
Left, right is posterior in thorax due to rotation of foregut
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** What sphincters are part of the abdominal esophagus?**
** Gastroesophageal sphincter/ lower esophageal sphincter internal sphincter external sphincter
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** Malfunction of which sphincter results in GERD? **
Squamocolumnar junction
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What supplies blood to the lesser curvature of the stomach?
Right gastric artery from hepatic artery proper Left gastric artery from celiac trunk
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What supplies blood to the greater curvature of the stomach?
Right gastro-omental/epiploic artery from gastroduodenal artery (common hepatic artery) Left gastro-omental/epiploic artery from splenic artery
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** What supplies blood to the fundus of the stomach? **
Short gastric artery from splenic artery, trabecular branches
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What can anemia result from?
Being vegetarian, not getting enough B12
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Where are the first and second parts of the duodenum?
Foregut
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Where are the 3rd and 4th parts of the duodenum?
Midgut
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List out one intraperitoneal organ of fore-, mid- and hindgut separately.
foregut - esophagus midgut - ilium hindgut - sigmoid colon
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What are the anterior lobes of the liver?
Right and left lobes connected by falciform ligament
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What are the posterior lobes of the liver?
Caudate and Quadrate lobes (Medial to IVA and gallbladder)
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Whats the difference between hepatic and portal veins?
Hepatic veins drain to inferior vena cava portal veins are nutrient enriched and deoxygenated
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What is the pulmonary artery for regarding pulmonary circulation?
gas exchange
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What is the bronchial artery for regarding pulmonary circulation?
Nutrients and oxygen for lung functions
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** All endocrine glands have extraordinarily abundant blood supply. True or False?**
True
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What does the pancreas do?
Endocrine: insulin and glucagon Exocrine: digestive enzymes
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** Which organ is Kehr's sign related to? **
Capsule of the Spleen thin and easy lacerated, bleeding, referral pain on the left shoulder
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Why is the splenic artery from the celiac trunk tortuous?
Trabecular artery gives out multiple short gastric arteries
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A patient suffers from chronic peptic ulcer. Deficiency of which vitamin absorption will cause severe medical problems? How can this happen?
Vitamin B12, not eating enough animal products
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What arteries supply the midgut?
superior mesenteric artery *Middle colic artery *Right colic artery Jejunal arteries Ileal arteries *Ileocolic artery - Marginal artery
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What arteries supply the hindgut?
inferior mesenteric artery *Left colic artery *Sigmoid arteries - Marginal artery *Superior rectal artery
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What are the 4 types of mesenteries?
1. Mesentery proper: superior mesenteric artery branches for jejunum, ileum 2. Transverse mesocolon: middle colic artery – transverse colon 3. Sigmoid mesocolon: sigmoid and superior rectal arteries – sigmoid colon 4. Mesoappendix: appendicular artery - appendix
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What is the difference between the jejunum and ileum?
Less layer of arcades and longer vasa recta in jejunum Less circular folds in ileum compared to jejunum: jejunum mainly absorbs nutrients
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Which parts of the colon are fixed to the abdominal wall?
Ascending and descending colon, all other parts intraperitoneal
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The cystic artery is a branch of which artery?
right hepatic artery in celiac trunk from hepatic proper
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all digestive tract veins drain to what?
The hepatic portal vein
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What are the functions of the hepatic portal system?
Storage of nutrients to the liver detoxication
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Malfunction of which organ blocks portal vein drainage?
Liver
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Gastric / splenic vein back flow to esophageal veins causes what?
Esophageal varices
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Rectal veins to internal iliac veins backflow causes what?
Internal hemorrhoids
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Paraumbilical vein back flow causes what?
Caput medusae
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What is the function of the kidneys?
- Waste excretion out of blood: urine production - Electrolyte and water balance - Regulate blood pressure: renin-angiotensin system - Hematopoiesis: cytokine erythropoietin (EPO)
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Which kidney is lower than the other?
Right lower than the left due to the liver
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*** What is an AAA?
abdonimal aortic aneurism - increasing risk inferior to renal artery
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When does "nutcracker syndrome" occur?
When the left renal vein is impinged between the superior mesenteric artery and the anterior aorta - causes blood in urine and a swollen scrotum
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What is the medulla of the adrenal glands?
sympathetic ganglion - neurons release epinephrine and norepinephrine
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Where is the abdominal hiatus for the abdominal aorta?
T12 - median arcuate ligament
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Where is the gonadal artery?
Primarily retroperitoneal and descends to pelvis/scrotum
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What percentage of the thoracic duct drains to the left subclavian vein?
75%
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What innervates the foregut?
- Sympathetic innervation: greater splanchnic nerve (T5~T9) - Parasympathetic innervation: vagus nerve (cranial nerve 10)
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What innervates the midgut?
- Sympathetic innervation: inconclusive due to the rotations - Parasympathetic innervation: vagus nerve (cranial nerve 10) to 2/3 transverse colon
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What innervates the hindgut?
- Sympathetic innervation: lumbar splanchnic nerve (L1~L2) - Parasympathetic innervation: pelvic splanchnic nerve (S2~S4)
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A patient has been diagnosed AAA (abdominal aorta aneurysm). Where to palpate the pulse for the diagnoses?
idk
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What is the visceral innervation of the phrenic nerve?
Phrenic nerve: mediastinal pleura/fibrous pericardial capsule/gallbladder/ruptured spleen
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What is a plexus of enteric neurons that outnumbers the spinal cord?
Autonomous nervous system

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