Anatomy 1 Flashcards
What is the arterial supply of the greater curvature of the stomach?
Superiorly: Left gastroepiploic artery
Inferiorly: Right gatroepiploic artery
What is arterial supply of the lesser curvature of the stomach?
Superiorly: Left gastric artery
Inferiorly: Right gastric artery
What artery supplies the fundus of the stomach?
Short gastric artery
which two arteries of the stomach anastomose?
Right and left gastroepiploic arteries
What are the 3 main branches of the coeliac trunk?
left gastric, splenic and common hepatic arteries.
origin of the Left gastroepiploic artery?
Splenic artery
origin of the short gastric artery?
Splenic artery
origin of the Right gastroepiploic artery?
Gastroduodenal artery
coeliac trunk is a branch of the ____?
aorta
what is the greater omentum?
large apron-like fold of peritoneum which hangs down from the stomach
what part of the stomach does the greater omentum extend from?
Greater curvature of the stomach
what is the marking of the fundus of the gallbladder?
where right rectus Abdominus meets the Costal margin
what does the transverse mesocolon do?
Connects the transverse colon to the posterior wall of the abdomen.
what is found underneath the greater omentum?
Transverse colon
Infracolic compartment
what is the lesser omentum?
double layer of peritoneum that extends from the liver to the lesser curvature of the stomach
