Ach Lab 2-Peritoneum Flashcards
What is the largest serous cavity in the body?
Peritoneal cavity
What is Ascites?
An abnormal accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity due to some disease process
What are the 3 specializations of peritoneum?
Mesentery
Omentum
Ligament
What is a mesentery made up of?
2 layers of peritoneum
What is an Omentum?
What are the 2?
Folds of peritoneum connecting the stomach to another organ.
Lesser omentum: between the stomach and the liver
Greater omentum: between the stomach and the colon
What are the 3 parts to the greater omentum?
What is it derived from?
Gastrocolic
Gastrosplenic
Gastrophrenic
Dorsal mesentery
What is the lesser omentum derived from?
What are its 2 parts?
Ventral mesentery.
Hepatoduodenal and hepatogastric ligaments
What are the folds of the dorsal mesentery separated by?
Omental bursa (lesser sac)
What do peritoneal ligaments do?
Suspend a less mobile organ from the abdominal wall or attaches it to another organ
What connects the Greater & Lesser Sacs?
Omental (Epiploic) Foramen
What does the entire GI tract develop from?
Gut tube
What mesentery contributes to the falciform ligament?
Ventral
What supplies the foregut?
Celiac trunk
What supplies the midgut?
superior mesenteric artery
what supplies the hindgut?
inferior mesenteric artery