Accessory Digestive Organs- Taylor Flashcards
The pancreas extends from the ______ to the ______.
Spleen
Duodenum
The pancreas acts as the attachment for the ____ to the posterior abdominal wall.
Transverse mesocolon
What do centroacinar cells secrete?
Watery solution rich in sodium bicarbonate
What does the liver do?
Store glycogen
Secrete bile
What regions of the abdomen are the liver located in?
Right hypochondriac
Epigastric
What attaches the liver to the anterior abdominal wall?
Falciform ligament
What does the falciparum ligament become inferiorly?
Round ligament
What ligaments attach the liver to the diaphragm?
Coronary and triangular ligaments
Where is the bare area located?
Between the coronary and triangular ligaments
What is the fissure for ligamentum venosum remnant of?
Ductus venosus
What causes the bare area?
The wilderness of the coronary ligament
What does the hepatic portal vein do?
Carry venous blood from the digestive tract into the liver
What does the hepatic artery do?
Carry oxygen-rich blood to the liver
What do the left and right hepatic ducts do?
Carry bile out of the liver
What is the quadrate liver between?
Gall bladder fossa
Round ligament
What is the caudate lobe between?
Inferior vena cava
Ligamentum venosum
Which lobes does the left hepatic artery?
Left
Caudate
Quadrate
Smallest functionalities portion of liver
Lobules
-hexagonal organization
Hepatocyte as epi cell
No apex or basal lamina
- bile side with bile canaliculus
- sinusoidal side
Endothelium that lines liver sinusoids
Discontinuous
What are Kupffer cells?
Phagocytic cells that break down old erythrocytes
What is the thin space between the hepatocytes and sinusoids?
Space of Disse
What is within the space of Disse?
Hepatic microvilli
Reticular fibers
Cells of Ito
What do the cells of Ito do?
Restore liver cells
Store vitamin A
