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Nerves of the Anterior Abdominal Wall:

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  • Thoracoabdominal N
  • Subcostal N
  • Iliohypogastric N
  • Ilioinguinal N
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Anterior Abdominal Wall Nerves travel between the __ ___ and ___ ___ muscles

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  • Internal Oblique
  • Transversus Abdominis
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Thoracoabdominal Nerve

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  • Continuations of the intercostal nerves from T7 to T11
  • Provide motor and sensory innervation to the majority of the anterior abdomen
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Subcostal Nerve

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  • Continuation of the T12 nerve
  • Runs along the inferior border of the 12th rib
  • Provides sensory innervation to the area superior to the iliac crest
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Iliohypogastric Nerve

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  • One of the branches from L1; the first branch off the lumbar plexus
  • Passes under the psoas major, across the quadratus lumborum
  • Provides innervation to the internal oblique and transversus abdominis muscle
  • Provides sensory innervation to the posterolateral gluteal skin and suprapubic skin (hypogastric region)
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Ilioinguinal Nerve

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  • Second branch from L1; the second branch off the lumbar plexus
  • Enters the inguinal canal
  • Provides innervation to the medial thigh and associated genital area (male’s root of the penis and anterior scrotum, female’s mons pubis and labia majora)
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What nerve innervates the female’s mons pubis and labia majora?

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Ilioinguinal Nerve

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Nerves of the Lumbar Plexus:

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  • Iliohypogastric
  • Ilioinguinal
  • Genitofemoral
  • Lateral Cutaneous Nerve of the Thigh
  • Femoral
  • Obturator
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Nerves that Pass Through the Inguinal Canal:

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  • Ilioinguinal N
  • Genital Branch of the Genitofemoral N
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Structures that Pass Through the Inguinal Canal: Males

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  • Spermatic Cord
  • Ilioinguinal N
  • Genital Branch of the Genitofemoral N
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Structures that Pass Through the Inguinal Canal: Females

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  • Round Ligament of the Uterus
  • Ilioinguinal N
  • Genital Branch of the Genitofemoral N
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Genital Branch of the Genitofemoral Nerve

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  • Provides innervation to the anterior labia majora, anterior scrotum, and adjacent thigh
  • Provides motor innervation to the Cremaster Muscle
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Genitofemoral Nerve pierces the:

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Psoas Major Muscle

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Femoral Branch of the Genitofemoral Nerve

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  • Travels under the inguinal ligament to enter the thigh
  • Provides innervation to subcutaneous areas of anterior thigh
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Nerve Roots of Genitorfemoral Nerve:

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L1 and L2

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Nerve Roots of Lateral Cutaneous Nerve of the Thigh:

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L2 and L3

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Nerve Roots of Femoral Nerve:

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L2, L3 and L4

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Nerve Roots of Obturator Nerve:

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L2, L3, and L4

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Nerves that Innervate the Posterior Abdominal Wall:

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  • Subcostal N
  • Lumbar Plexus (Iliohypogastric, Ilioinguinal, Lateral Cutaneous N of the Thigh, Femoral, Obturator)
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Lumbar Plexus is created by contributions from ___ and ___-___

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  • T12
  • L1-L4
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Lateral Cutaneous Nerve of the Thigh

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  • Associated with the lateral aspect of the inguinal ligament
  • Provides sensory innervation to the anterior and lateral thigh
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Femoral Nerve

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  • Travels outside the abdominopelvic cavity (under the inguinal ligament)
  • Provides innervation to the muscles and skin of the anterior thigh and medial leg
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Obturator Nerve

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  • Travels with the psoas major on its medial aspect, emerging near the common iliac artery
  • Enters medial thigh through the Obturator Canal
  • Provides motor and sensory innervation to the muscles of the medial thigh
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Lumbosacral Trunk

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  • Created through the anterior rami of the 4th and 5th lumbar nerves
  • Runs inferiorly on either side of the spinal column to interact with S1
  • Helps create the sciatic, superior gluteal, and inferior gluteal nerves, and the nerves to the internal obturator, superior and inferior gemellus, and quadratus femoris muscles
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Nerves that Provide Sympathetic Innervation:

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  • Greater Splanchnic N
  • Lesser Splanchnic N
  • Least Splanchnic N
  • Lumbar Splanchnic N
  • Sacral Splanchnic N
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Thoracic Splanchnic Nerve

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  • Consists of 3 pairs of nerves above the diaphragm running inferiorly towards the abdomen to synapse within the ganglia located near the aorta
  • Consists of preganglionic sympathetic nerve fibers from the sympathetic chain ganglion T5-T12
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Greater Splanchnic Nerve

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  • Contains input from T5-T9
  • Travels from thoracic sympathetic trunk inferiorly into the abdomen (passing thru the thoracic diaphragm) where it synapses on the Celiac Trunk Ganglion
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Postsynaptic Fibers of the Greater Splanchnic Nerve Provide Sympathetics to these Structures:

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  • Esophagus
  • Stomach
  • Spleen
  • Pancreas
  • Liver
  • Biliary System
  • Duodenum
  • Greater Omentum
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What nerve helps create the enteric nervous system of the foregut structures?

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Greater Splanchnic Nerve

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Lesser Splanchnic Nerve

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  • Contains input from T10-T11
  • Synapses at the Superior Mesenteric Ganglia (near where the superior mesenteric artery comes off the aorta)
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Postsynaptic Fibers of the Lesser Splanchnic Nerve Provide Sympathetics to these Structures:

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  • Jejunum
  • Ileum
  • Cecum
  • Ascending Colon
  • Transverse Colon
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What nerve provides sympathetics to the midgut organs?

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Lesser Splanchnic Nerve

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Least Splanchnic Nerve

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  • Contains input from T11 and/or T12
  • Synapses at the Aortic Renal Ganglion
  • Provides innervation to the kidneys
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Lumbar Splanchnic Nerve

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  • Contains input from L1-L5
  • Join with the celiac, inferior mesenteric, and superior hypogastric plexuses
  • Postsynaptic fibers travel to the hindgut and pelvic organs
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What nerve provides sympathetics to the hindgut organs?

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Lumbar Splanchnic Nerve

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Sacral Splanchnic Nerve

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  • Contains input from S1-S5
  • Synapses at the Inferior Hypogastric Plexus
  • Provide sympathetic innervation to the pelvis and perineum
  • Travels with branches of the internal iliac artery
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Ganglion Impar

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  • End of the sympathetic chain near the sacrococcygeal junction
  • Left and Right sympathetic chains join here
  • No white rami communicantes come into this ganglion, only gray rami travel out
  • Sympathetic neurons travel to lower pelvic organs including the distal rectum and anus
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Nerves that Provide Parasympathetic Innervation:

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  • Vagus N
  • Pelvic Splanchnic N
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Vagus Nerve

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  • Parasympathetic
  • Originates in the brain stem
  • Enters abdomen as the anterior or posterior vagal trunk (LARP = left anterior, right posterior) from the esophageal plexus
  • Carries presynaptic parasympathetic and visceral afferent fibers (mainly for reflexes) to the abdominal aortic plexuses
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What nerve provides parasympathetic innervation to the foregut and midgut?

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Vagus Nerve

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Pelvic Splanchnic Nerve

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  • Parasympathetic
  • Contains input from the anterior rami of S2-S4
  • Nerves travel to the inferior hypogastric plexus
  • Provide parasympathetic innervation to the descending colon, sigmoid colon, rectum and anal canal, and structures of the pelvis and perineum
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What nerve provides parasympathetic innervation to the hindgut?

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Pelvic Splanchnic Nerve

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Extrinsic Plexuses

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Collections of sympathetic postganglionic axons and parasympathetic preganglionic axons (and some visceral sensory)

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Celiac (Solar) Plexus

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  • Located underneath the thoracic diaphragm
  • Associated with the Celiac Trunk
  • Greater and Lesser Splanchnic nerves provide sympathetic contributions
  • Posterior Vagal Trunk provides parasympathetic contributions
  • Branches from this plexus travel to the foregut organs to help with controlling digestive processes
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Celiac Ganglion

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Where the sympathetic preganglionic and postganglionic axons synapse

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Superior Mesenteric Plexus

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  • Located around the Superior Mesenteric Artery
  • Connected to the Celiac Plexus
  • Receives contributions from the Lesser & Least Splanchnic Nerves, and the first lumbar ganglion of the sympathetic trunk
  • Provides innervation to the midgut structures
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Inferior Mesenteric Plexus

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  • Located around the Inferior Mesenteric Artery
  • Innervation from this plexus travels with the vessels from the Inferior Mesenteric Artery to innervated the hindgut
  • Receives contributions from the intermesenteric plexus (networks between superior and inferior) and the lumbar sympathetic trunk
  • ONLY SYMPATHETIC
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Superior Hypogastric Plexus

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  • Located below the Inferior Mesenteric Plexus and is connected to it
  • Provides sympathetic innervation to the pelvic viscera
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Hypogastric Nerve

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  • Branches off of the Superior Hypogastric Plexus
  • Connects the Superior Hypogastric Plexus with the Inferior Hypogastric Plexus
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Inferior Hypogastric Plexus

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  • Located in the pelvis on either side of the rectum, cervix and urinary bladder
  • Contains both sympathetic and parasympathetic innervation
  • Sympathetic contribution comes from the Hypogastric Nerves (Superior Hypogastric Plexus)
  • Parasympathetic contribution comes from the Pelvic Splanchnic Nerves
  • Provides innervation to the Pelvic Viscera
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Enteric Nervous System

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  • Wholly contained within the submucosal and myenteric plexuses in the wall of the GI tract
  • Communicates extensively with the Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Nervous Systems
  • Made up of intrinsic plexuses within the GI tract walls
  • Contains visceral afferent neurons that relay sensory information back to the CNS
  • Interactions between enteric neurons allow for reflex-like responses to help in the regulation of local GI responses
  • CNS provides the ENS with more broad-scale environmental control
  • Divided into the Myenteric Plexus and the Submucosal Plexus
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Myenteric Plexus (Auerbach Plexus)

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  • Intrinsic plexus located between the layers of muscles within the abdominal viscera (btwn the circular muscle and longitudinal muscle)
  • Helps in regulating the movement of the smooth muscle here
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Submucosal Plexus (Meissner Plexus)

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  • Part of the enteric nervous system located within the submucosa of the abdominal viscera (btwn the submucosa and circular muscle)
  • Functions to control both endocrine and exocrine secretions, vasomotion, micro-motility, and immune response
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Midclavicular Plane

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Two sagittal planes running down from the center of the right nad left clavicles

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Transpyloric Plane (Addison’s Plane)

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  • Runs across the body at the level of L1
  • Found by finding the midpoint between the jugular notch and pubic symphysis
  • This line transects the pylorus of the stomach, gallbladder, pancreas, superior mesenteric artery, hepatic portal vein, transverse mesocolon, and hilum of the kidneys
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Subcostal Plane

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Line passes inferior to the 10th costal cartilage (L2); runs paralle to the transverse colon

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Transtubercular (Intertubercular) Plane

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  • Line passes through the iliac tubercles
  • Approximately at the level of the ileocecal junction
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Interspinous Plane

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  • Line that connects the two ASIS’s together
  • Runs around the level of the appendix and sigmoid colon
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Right Hypochondriac Region

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  • Liver
  • Gallbladder
  • Right kidney
  • Small Intestine
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Right Hypochondriac Region

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Right Upper Quadrant
- Liver
- Gallbladder
- Right kidney
- Small Intestine

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Epigastric Region

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Middle Upper Quadrant
- Stomach
- Liver
- Pancreas
- Duodenum
- Spleen
- Adrenal Glands

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Left Hypochondriac Region

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Left Upper Quadrant
- Spleen
- Colon
- Left Kidney
- Pancreas

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Right Lumbar Region

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Right Middle Quadrant
- Gallbladder
- Liver
- Right Colon

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Umbilical Region

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Middle
- Umbilicus
- Parts of Small Intestine
- Duodenum

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Left Lumbar Region

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Left Middle Quadrant
- Descending Colon
- Left Kidney

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Right Iliac Region

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Right Lower Quadrant
- Appendix
- Cecum

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Hypogastric Region

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Middle Lower Quadrant
- Urinary Bladder
- Sigmoid Colon
- Female Reproductice Organs

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Left Iliac Region

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Left Lower Quadrant
- Descending Colon
- Sigmoid Colon

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