Dissection Flashcards
What blood vessels supply the mammary glands?
Cranial 2 pairs - superficial cranial epigastric
Caudal 3 pairs - superficial caudal epigastrtric
What is the superficial cranial epigastric artery a branch of?
Internal thoracic artery
What is the superficial caudal epigastric what is a branch of?
External pudendal artery
What 4 blood vessels supply the abdominal wall?
Cranial epigastric (cranioventral) Cranial abdominal (craniodorsal) Caudal epigastric (caudoventral) Deep circumflex iliac (caudodorsal)
Where do the mammary glands drain into?
Cranial 3 pairs- axillary LN
Caudal 2 pairs - inguinal LN
What direction do the EAO fibres run? What about the IAO?
EAO - caudoventral
IAO - cranioventral
A slip of the IAO muscle runs through the inguinal canal to form which muscle?
Cremaster
Where do all the abdominal muscles insert on to form an aponeurosis?
Linea alba
What is the name of the large inguinal nerve that is L3? (Seen between ab all muscles)
Ilioinguinal nerve
What is an aponeurosis?
Fibrous tendon of a flat muscle
What passes through the inguinal canal in the male? (3 things)
Spermatic cord
Cremaster
External pedundal VAN
What passes through the inguinal canal in the female?
Round ligament of uterus
Genitofemoral nerve
External pudendal VAN
What is the faliciform ligament? What is it a remnant of?
Large, fat fold of peritoneum
Ventral mesentery
What does the falciform ligament attach?
Attaches liver to ventral wall at umbilicus
What ligament is found within the falciform ligament?
Round ligament of liver
What is the round ligament of the liver a remnant of?
Umbilical vein
The greater and lesser omentums are connecting peritoneum. What do they attach and to where?
Greater - from greater curvature of stomach to body wall
Lesser - from lesser curvature of stomach to liver
What is the omental bursa?
Potential space - between 2 folds of greater omentum (folds back on itself)
What is the only opening into the omental bursa?
Epiploic foramen