Lesson 5A (Part 3) Flashcards
What are the 2 pancreatic ducts?
- Main pancreatic duct
2. Accessory pancreatic duct
What is another word for the main pancreatic duct?
Duct of Wirsung
What is another word for the accessory pancreatic duct?
Duct of Santorini
Where does the duct of wirsung begin and empty?
Beings at the tail of the pancreas and moves through the pancreas to empy into the descending duodenum
Where is the accessory duct?
It is a branch off of the main pancreatic duct that enters the duodenum superior to where the main duct enters
What does the pancreas produce?
Insulin
What does papilla mean?
Excreting something
- like a nipple
What does the minor papilla duct release?
Insulin from the duct of santorini
Where does the major papilla come from?
The main pancreatic duct
Where are the right and left hepatic ducts located?
In the liver
What do the right and left hepatic ducts do?
Drain the lobes of the liver of bile
Where do the left and right hepatic ducts join?
At the level of the liver hilum
What is a hilum referred to as?
A doorway
- porta hepatis
What do the left and right hepatic ducts join to form?
The common hepatic duct
What does the common hepatic duct become as it moves inferiorly?
The common bile duct