Midterm

Question 1

What are the landmarks for the transtubercular plane?

Answer 1

• tubercles of the iliac crests

- body of LV5

Question 2

What the the landmarks for the transumbilical plane?

Answer 2

-LV3-4

(Similar to supracristal plane

Question 3

Describe the transpyloric plane

Answer 3

• T12-LV1
• half-way between the jugular notch and the pubic symphysis
• goes through the pyloric part of the stomach which is “fixed”

Question 4

Midclavicular plane goes from _______ to _______

Answer 4

Midpoint of clavicle

Midinguinal point

Question 5

Mid Sagittarius (median) plane

Answer 5

• Linda Alba

- passes through umbilicus

Question 6

What is contained in the right upper quadrant?

Answer 6

• gall bladder
• duodenum
• Right pleura
• right lobe of liver
• right kidney

Question 7

What is contained in the left upper quadrant?

Answer 7

• spleen
• stomach
• left pleura
• tail of pancreas
• left kidney

Question 8

What is contained in the right lower quadrant?

Answer 8

• right ureter
• cecum
• ileal diverticulum
• vermiform appendix

Question 9

What are the landmarks in the Subcostal plane?

Answer 9

• 10th costal cartilages

- superior border of LV3

Question 10

What is contained in the left lower quadrant ?

Answer 10

• left ureter

- descending and sigmoid colon

Question 11

The cremaster muscle arises from what?

Answer 11

Internal oblique

Question 12

The conjoint tendon is formed from what?

Answer 12

Internal oblique and transverse abdominis

Question 13

Xiphoid region is what dermatome?

Answer 13

T7

Question 14

Umbilical region is what dermatome?

Answer 14

T10

Question 15

Inguinal fold region is what dermatome?

Answer 15

L1

Question 16

What guides the descent of the testes?

Answer 16

Gubernaculum

Question 17

What does the Gubernaculum become in a female?

Answer 17

Ligament of ovary and round ligament

-scrotal ligament in males

Question 18

What does processis vaginalis develop into?

Answer 18

Tunica vaginalis

Question 19

What two things contract the testes closer to the body when they need to be warm?

Answer 19

Cremaster and dartos muscles

Question 20

What does dartos muscle come from?

Answer 20

Primarily scarpas fascia

Question 21

What does cremasteric fascia come from?

Answer 21

Fascia from internal oblique muscle

Question 22

What does internal spermatic fascia come from?

Answer 22

Transversalis fascia