L19 - Accessory Digestive Organs Flashcards
What are the accessory digestive organs? (4)
- liveer
- gallbladder
- pancreas
- salivary glands
What do accessory digestive organs do?
produce, store and secrete digestive enzymes and buffers
both the ___ and ___ have functions in other body systems
- liver
- pancreas
What is the liver?
- largest visceral organ (mass 1.5kg)
What are the livers functions? (3)
- metabolic
- hematological
- digestive
What is the metabolic function of the liver?
hepatocytes regulate circulating
What is the hematological function of the liver?
What is the digestive function of the liver?
synthesizes and secretes bile
what is anything with “hepato” in it related to?
the liver
describe the location of the liver
- immediately inferior to the diaphragm
- right upper abdomen
- sits superior and lateral to stomach, right kidney and intestines
what is the diaphragmatic surface?
- superior and anterior surfaces of liver
- smooth
- follows curve of diaphragm and body wall
what is thre bare area of the liver?
area in direct contact with the diaphragm, no visceral peritoneum
what is the visceral surface?
- posterior and inferior surfaces
- has impressions from the stomach, small intetsine, right kidney and large intestine
What are the four lobes of the liver?
- right
- left
- caudate
- quadrate
What are the ligaments of the liver made up of?
double folds of peritoneum
What are the 5 liagments in the liver?
- falciform ligament
- coronary ligament
- right and left triangular ligaments
- roud ligaments (ligamentum teres)
falciform ligament
attaches liver to anterior body wall and divides the liver into right and left loves
coronary ligament
suspends liver from the diaphragm
right and left triangular ligaments
on superior aspect, towards lateral body wall
roud ligaments (ligamentum teres)
thickening of inferor margin of falciform ligament, embryological remnant of umbilival vein
What is stored and concentrated in the gallbladder?
bile
what does bile do?
helps in the digestion of dietary lipids through emulsification
Gross anatomy of the gallbladder (5)
- cyctic duct
- neck
- infundibulum
- fundus
- right and left hepatic duct