Canine Abdominal Organs

Question 1

What are the six lobes of the liver?

Answer 1

• right medial
• right lateral
• quadrate
• left medial
• left lateral
• caudate

Question 2

The caudate lobe of the liver is made up of what two portions?

Answer 2

• caudate process
• papillary process

Question 3

The gall bladder is located between what two lobes of the liver?

Answer 3

Between right medial and quadrate lobes

Question 4

The falciform ligament is located between what two lobes of the liver?

Answer 4

Between left medial and quadrate lobes

Question 5

The porta hepatis (hilum of the liver) is located on what surface of the liver?

Answer 5

Visceral surface

Question 6

The biliary system is composed of what?

Answer 6

• gall bladder
• cystic duct
• hepatic ducts
• bile duct
• major duodenal papilla

Question 7

What holds the liver in position?

Answer 7

Ligaments

Question 8

What ligament of the liver courses from the right crus of the diaphragm to the right lateral lobe of the liver?

Answer 8

Right triangular ligament

Question 9

What ligament of the liver courses from the left crus of the diaphragm to the left lateral lobe of the liver?

Answer 9

Left triangular ligament

Question 10

What ligament of the liver courses between the diaphragm and liver around the caudal vena cava and hepatic veins?

Answer 10

Coronary ligament

Question 11

What ligament of the liver arises from the ventral mesentery?

Answer 11

falciform ligament

Question 12

The pancreas in dogs and cats is shaped like what?

Answer 12

A boomerang

Question 13

The body of the pancreas is near what?

Answer 13

The pylorus

Question 14

The right lobe of the pancreas is within what?

Answer 14

the mesoduodenum

Question 15

The left lobe of the pancreas is within what?

Answer 15

the deep leaf of greater omentum

Question 16

The pancreatic duct empties at what?

Answer 16

the major duodenal papilla

Question 17

The accessory pancreatic duct empties at what?

Answer 17

the minor duodenal papilla

Question 18

Which pancreatic duct is always present in cats?

Answer 18

the pancreatic duct

Question 19

Which pancreatic duct is smaller in the dog and sometimes absent in the dog?

Answer 19

the pancreatic duct

Question 20

Which pancreatic duct is larger in the dog and only present in 20% of cats?

Answer 20

the accessory pancreatic duct

Question 21

Where is the spleen located?

Answer 21

Within the superficial leaf of the greater omentum

Question 22

Which ligament is associated with the spleen?

Answer 22

gastrosplenic ligament

Question 23

The root of the mesentery sits where?

Answer 23

In the middle of the caudal flexure of the duodenum and transverse colon

Question 24

Explain the relationship of the spleen and the stomach and how that can affect the position of the spleen.

Answer 24

If the stomach is full, it will push the spleen more into the wall of the abdomen instead of the spleen sitting over top of the stomach

Question 25

What are the three peritoneal pouches of the pelvic cavity?

Answer 25

- pubovesical pouch - vesicogential pouch - rectogenital pouch

Question 26

What is the shallow peritoneal sac between the pubic bone and the neck of the bladder or prostate?

Answer 26

pubovesical pouch

Question 27

What is the sac formed in females by the reflection of the peritoneum between the bladder and the ventro-cranial surface of the vagina? In males, this pouch is formed between the prostate ventrally and the genital fold and deferent ducts dorsally?

Answer 27

Vesicogenital pouch

Question 28

What is the reflection of the peritoneum between the genital organs and the rectum in both females and males. In males, this pouch extends far caudally than females.

Answer 28

Rectogenital pouch