Anatomy

Question 1

GI ligament that contains the ligamentum trees hepatic (derivative of fetal umbilical vein)

Answer 1

falciform ligament
(liver to anterior abdominal wall)

Question 2

ligament that contains the portal triad

Answer 2

hepatoduodenal

connects greater and lesser sacs

Question 3

contains the gastric arteries

can be cut during surgery to access lesser sac

Answer 3

gastrohepatic ligament
(liver to lesser curvature of stomach)
(separate greater and lesser sacs on the RIGHT)

Question 4

contains the gastroepiploic arteries

Answer 4

gastrocolic ligament

greater curvature and transverse colon

Question 5

contains gastrics, left gastroepiploic vessels

Answer 5

gastrosplenic
(greater curvature and spleen)
separates greater and lesser sacs on the LEFT

Question 6

contains splenic artery and vain

tail of the pancreas

Answer 6

splenorenal

spleen to posterior abdominal wall

Question 7

Layer of gut wall:
mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa, serosa

Meissner’s plexus is in ______
Auerbach’s plexus is in _____

Answer 7

Meissners’s (submucosa) is in the submucosa
-secretory activity

Auerbach (myenteric) is in the muscularis externa
-control muscle contraction

Question 8

zone of liver most susceptible to acute hepatitis

Answer 8

zone I: periportal

Question 9

zone of liver first affected by: ischemia

Answer 9

zone III: pericentral vein

• also most sensitive to toxic injury
• site of alcoholic hepatitis

Question 10

zone of liver that contains p450 system

Answer 10

zone III: pericentral