Arteries of the Abdomen

Question 1

Where is the abdominal aorta?

Answer 1

Runs to left of our vertebral column and it surrounding adipose tissue. Paired and single arteries branch off.

Question 2

In the abdominal aorta, paired branches come off _______, unpaired come off ______ aspect.

Answer 2

laterally

anterior

Question 3

What three arteries compose the celiac trunk?

Answer 3

Common hepatic artery
Left gastric artery
Splenic artery

Question 4

What does the common hepatic artery turn into?

Answer 4

Hepatic artery (after right gastroduodenal branches off)
Right and left hepatic arteries

Question 5

What does the gastroduodenal artery come off of?

Answer 5

Common hepatic

Question 6

How does the gallbladder get blood supply?

Answer 6

By the cystic artery, which comes off the right hepatic artery

Question 7

How is the stomach supplied with blood?

Answer 7

Left gastric artery (from celiac trunk)

Question 8

How is the inferior esophagus supplied with blood?

Answer 8

Left gastric artery (from celiac trunk)

Question 9

What does the left gastric artery anastomose with?

Answer 9

Right gastroduodenal artery

Question 10

What does the splenic artery supply?

Answer 10

supplies spleen,some stomach, some pancreas

Question 11

How is the pancreas supplied with blood?

Answer 11

By the pancreatic artery, which comes off the splenic artery (from celiac trunk)

Question 12

What does the superior mesenteric artery supply?

Answer 12

pancreas, small intestine, appendix, 1st ⅔ of large intestine

Question 13

How are the adrenal glands supplied with blood?

Answer 13

Suprarenal arteries

Question 14

How are the kidneys supplied with blood?

Answer 14

Renal arteries

Question 15

How are the ovaries or testes supplied with blood?

Answer 15

Gonadal arteries

Question 16

What does the inferior mesenteric artery supply?

Answer 16

Supplies last ⅓ of large intestine; parts of transverse, descending, and sigmoid colon, and rectum

Question 17

What does the inferior phrenic artery supply?

Answer 17

Inferior surface of diaphragm

Question 18

What do the lumbar arteries supply?

Answer 18

Supply lumbar vertebrae, spinal cord, abdominal wall

Question 19

How are the sacrum and coccyx supplied with blood?

Answer 19

Middle sacral artery

Question 20

What does the middle sacral artery anastomise with?

Answer 20

This is a small vessel anastomosing with lumbar and sacral branches from the internal iliac artery

Question 21

What does the abdominal aorta spit into inferiorly?

Answer 21

Right and left common iliac arteries

Question 22

What does the common iliac split into?

Answer 22

Internal and external iliac arteries