Anatomy of Peritoneal Cavity

Question 1

What is the function of mesenteries?

Answer 1

Transmit vessels and nerves, allow mobility

Question 2

What is the nerve supply of the parietal peritoneum?

Answer 2

somatic nerves

Question 3

What is the nerve supply of the visceral peritoneum?

Answer 3

autonomic nerves

Question 4

What viscera are primarily retroperitoneal?

Answer 4

Paired viscera

Question 5

What are the paired viscera?

Answer 5

Kidneys, adrenals, ureters

Question 6

What viscera are secondarily retroperitoneal?

Answer 6

ascending and descending colon, duodenum, pancreas, bile duct

Question 7

What viscera are intraperitoneal?

Answer 7

stomach, jejenum and ileum, ceacum and appendix, transverse colon, sigmoid colon, liver, gall bladder, spleen

Question 8

What is the mesentery?

Answer 8

The mesentery of the jejunum and the ileum

Question 9

What is the path of the mesentery?

Answer 9

Starts at the the DJ flexure and extends obliquely downward to the right and ends at the ileocaecal junction - goes across the 3rd part of the duodenum, the aorta and IVC, the right ureter and right psoas

Question 10

What is the transverse mesocolon?

Answer 10

The mesentery of the transverse colon

Question 11

What is the path of the transverse mesocolon?

Answer 11

Travels across the head and body of the pancreas and the second part of the duodenum

Question 12

What is the sigmoid mesocolon?

Answer 12

The mesentery of the sigmoid colon

Question 13

What is the path of the sigmoid mesocolon?

Answer 13

Inverted v shape over the division of the left common iliac artery

Question 14

What is the omentum?

Answer 14

A double layer of peritoneum that passes from the stomach to other viscera

Question 15

What is the lesser omentum?

Answer 15

A double layer of peritoneum that extends from the lesser curvature of the stomach and the first inch of the duodenum to the visceral surface of the liver

Question 16

What is the epiploic foramen?

Answer 16

The gap at the free edge of the lesser omentum that is the entrance to the lesser sac

Question 17

What are the borders of the epiploic foramen?

Answer 17

Duodenum below, quadrate lobe of the liver above, portal triad in front, IVC behind

Question 18

What is the bare area of the liver?

Answer 18

the area of the liver where the lesser omentum doesn’t quite meet back up before attaching to the diaphragm

Question 19

What is the greater omentum?

Answer 19

A double layer of peritoneum that extends from the greater curvature of the stomach and the first part of the duodenum and drapes down over the front of the abdominal cavity and then reflects back up and adheres to the transverse colon and then attaches to the posterior abdominal wall at the same place as the transverse mesocolon

Question 20

What is the gastro-lienal ligament?

Answer 20

The part of the greater omentum which envelops the spleen before going to the posterior abdominal awl

Question 21

What is the gastro-phrenic ligament?

Answer 21

the part of the greater omentum that attaches directly to the diaphragm