Final Exam - Vessels of Abdominal Aorta

Question 1

Name the three unpaired arteries of the abdominal aorta.

Answer 1

Celiac a.

Cranial Mesenteric a.

Caudal mesenteric a.

Question 2

What are the three major branches of the Celiac artery?

Answer 2

Hepatic a.

Left gastric a.

Splenic a.

Question 3

What is supplied by the right gastric artery?

Answer 3

lesser curvature of the stomach (pyloric part)

Question 4

What are the two major branches of the gastroduodenal artery?

Answer 4

right gastroepiploic a.

cranial pancreaticoduodenal a.

Question 5

What is supplied by the right gastroepiploic artery?

Answer 5

supplies greater curvature of stomach & greater omentum

Question 6

What is supplied by the cranial pancreaticoduodenal artery?

Answer 6

descending duodenum & right lobe of pancreas

Question 7

What is supplied by the cystic artery?

Answer 7

gallbladder

Question 8

What is supplied by the left gastric artery?

Answer 8

lesser curvature of the stomach

Question 9

What are the three major branches of the splenic artery?

Answer 9

Pancreatic branches

short gastric artery

left gastroepiploic artery

Question 10

What is supplied by the **short gastric **a.a.?

Answer 10

The fundus of the stomach (and the left side of the greater curvature of the stomach)

Question 11

What is supplied by the left gastroepiploic artery?

Answer 11

greater curvature of the stomach

Question 12

What are the major branches of the cranial mesenteric artery?

Answer 12

Common colic a.

Caudal pancreaticoduodenal a.

jejunal a.

ileal a.

Question 13

What are the three major branches of the ileocolic artery?

Answer 13

colic branch

mesenteric ileal branch

cecal artery

Question 14

What is supplied by the colic branch of the ileocolic artery?

Answer 14

ascending colon

Question 15

What is supplied by the cecal artery?

Answer 15

cecum &

antimesenteric side of ileum

Question 16

What is supplied by the caudal pancreaticoduodenal artery?

Answer 16

descending duodenum &

right lobe of pancreas

Question 17

What is supplies by the jejunal arteries?

Answer 17

jejunum.

come on, that was easy.

Question 18

What is supplied by the ileal arteries?

Answer 18

mesenteric side of the ileum

Question 19

What are the two main branches of the caudal mesenteric artery?

Answer 19

left colic artery

cranial rectal artery

Question 20

What is supplied by the left colic artery?

Answer 20

descending colon

Question 21

What is supplied by the cranial rectal artery?

Answer 21

oral portion of the rectum

Question 22

What are the major branches of the phrenicoabdominal artery?

Answer 22

caudal phrenic artery

cranial abdominal artery

Question 23

What is supplied by the caudal phrenic artery?

Answer 23

diaphragm

Question 24

What is supplied by the cranial abdominal artery?

Answer 24

vessels of the cranial abdominal wall

Question 25

What is supplied by the renal artery?

Answer 25

the kidney(s)

Question 26

The **hepatic portal vein **carries venous blood to the _______ from the abdominal viscera

Answer 26

liver

Question 27

What is drained by the gastroduodenal vein?

Answer 27

pancreas, stomach, duodenum, & greater omentum

Question 28

What is drained by the splenic vein?

Answer 28

spleen, stomach, pancreas, & greater omentum.

It also receives the left gastric vein, which drains the lesser curvature of the stomach

Question 29

What is drained by the cranial mesenteric vein?

Answer 29

jejunum, ileum, caudal duodenum, & right lobe of pancreas

Question 30

What is drained by the caudal mesenteric vein?

Answer 30

cecum & colon