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Lecture 19 Digestive Glands Flashcards

1
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Where is liver located?

A

upper right quadrant

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2
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What is the largest internal organ?

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  • liver
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3
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What incases/protects the liver?

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  • ribs and costal cartilages
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4
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Can you easily palpate the liver?

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  • no unless patient takes deep breath

- if you can palpate without deep inspiration it has become enlarged

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5
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What splits the left lobe from right lobe?

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  • double layered peritoneum called the falciform ligament
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6
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Ligamentum teres

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  • vessels pass through it as fetus

- umbilical vein travels through it

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7
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Gallbladder

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  • gut derivative
  • at some point in development has mesentery
  • adheres to surface of the liver
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8
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How does the gallbladder lose its mesentary

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  • it adheres to the anterior surface of the liver

- still considered mesenteric

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9
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The liver has 4 lobes

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  • left lobe
  • right lobe
  • caudate lobe
  • quadrate lobe
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10
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What fissures run front to back?

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  • sagittal fissures
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11
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What connects the sagittal fissures?

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  • horizontal fissure
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12
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What is the anterior lobe of the liver that lies between the two sagittal fissures?

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-quadrate lobe

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13
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What is the posterior lobe of the liver that lies between the two sagittal fissures?

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  • caudate lobe`
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14
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Ligamentum teres

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  • lies in left sagittal fissure

- obliterated after birth

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Ligamentum venosum and root of lesser omentum

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  • lies in posterior left sagittal fissure

-

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16
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Gall bladder

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  • anterior right sagittal fissure

- quadrate lobe

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17
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Where does the inferior vena cava pass in the liver?

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  • posterior sagittal fissure
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18
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Porta hepatis

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  • region around h. fissure that is doorway to liver
  • bile exiting
  • blood entering
  • nerve supply and lymphatics pass through
  • horizontal fissure
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19
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What part of liver makes contact with the post. abdominal wall?

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  • bare area of liver

- this part of liver is sec. retroperitoneal

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20
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Is the liver retroperitoneal or mesenteric?

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  • it is both
21
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All peritoneum of the liver is considered?

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  • visceral
22
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What mesentery suspends the stomach?

A
  • lesser omentum
23
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Where is omental foramen?

A
  • right wall of lesser sac
24
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what ligament of the liver lines of with the midline of the body?

A
  • falciform ligament
25
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Coronary ligament

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  • cut margin of visceral peritoneum that goes around the margins of bare area
26
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Lymph nodes/vessels

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  • tend to run alongside blood supply vessels in abdomen
27
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Bare area and diaphragm lymph system

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  • when they come together they from tiny channels that carry lymph from liver to thoracic lymph nodes
  • important route for metastasis of cancer
28
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Lung cancer

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  • can easily travel to liver through diaphragm into bare area of liver
29
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Functional left side bile drainage of liver

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  • left
  • quadrate
  • caudate
30
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Functional right side bile drainage of liver

A
  • right side
31
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Functional left side arterial blood supply of liver

A
  • left
  • quadrate
  • caudate
32
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Functional right side arterial blood supply of liver

A
  • right

- quadrate lobes

33
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What lobe of liver has arterial blood supply from both the left and right side?

A
  • quadrate
34
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What artery supplies the liver?

A
  • the left and right hepatic arteries that branch off of the celiac artery
35
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What artery supplies the gall blader?

A
  • cystic artery
36
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Approximate position of gall bladder

A

-intersection of lateral margin of rectus abdominus muscle and lower margin of costal margin

37
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cystic duct

A
  • drainage from gall bladder
38
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Common bile duct

A
  • comes into second section of duodenum

- where bile goes

39
Q

Cholesterol stones are found where?

A
  • gall bladder
40
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Portal vein

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  • carries venous blood into liver from the intestines

- posterior to common hepatic artery and common bile duct

41
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Does the majority of the pancreas lie inferior or posterior to the stomach?

A

posterior

42
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Pancreas functions

A
  • manufactures insulin and inserts it into blood

- pancreatic juices (exocrine)

43
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Is the pancreas 2nd retroperitoneal?

A
  • Yes
44
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Hepatopacreatic ampulla (of Vater)

A
  • where common bile duct and

- main pancreatic duct merge

45
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What blood supplies the head and neck of the pancreas?

A
  • superior PD artery (celiac)
46
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What are the body and tail of the pancreas supplied by?

A
  • splenic artery (celiac)
47
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What the head and uncinate process of the pancreas supplied by?

A

inferior PD aa (superior mesenteric)

48
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What part of the pancreas is mesenteric?

A
  • the tail
49
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What part or parts of the pancreas is secondarily retroperitoneal?

A
  • head, body, and neck

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