Pancreas

Question 1

What two kinds of secretions does the pancreas create and what are their differences?

Answer 1

Exocrine and endocrine. Exocrine is secretions that helps with the digestion and endocrine are hormones. The exocrine are released threw the pancreatic duct and the endocrine are released directly to the blood.

Question 2

Whats the exocrine production of the pancreas

Answer 2

Amylase, Lipase, & Trypsinogen

Question 3

What does Amylase do?

Answer 3

It breaks down Carbohydrates.

Question 4

What does Lipase do?

Answer 4

It breaks down Fat.

Question 5

What does Trypsinogen do?

Answer 5

It transforms into Trypsin which breaks down Protein.

Question 6

Whats the Endocrine production of the pancreas?

Answer 6

It produces Insuline, glucagon, and Somatostatin.

Question 7

What does Insuline and Glucagon do?

Answer 7

They regulate the sugar level in the blood.

Question 8

What does Somatostatin do?

Answer 8

It is a anta growth hormone, it regulates the growth of a person and regulates the endocrine system.

Question 9

Describe the organs in the small intesteine.

Answer 9

First come the Duodenum, then the Jejunum, and then the Ileum which ends at the Ileocecal valve to the large intestine

Question 10

Describe the duodenum

Answer 10

Its a around 10-12 inches long tub shaped organ (25-30 cm) connected to the stomach threw the Pyloris sphincter. most chemical digestion takes place here.

Question 11

Whats the 4 parts of the duodenum

Answer 11

First part is called the (superior) bulb, second part is called the descending, 3rd is called the horizontal, and the 4th is called the ascending and ends at around L2 in the duodenojejunal flexture.

Question 12

whats the role of the gallblader

Answer 12

Its a storage for bile exocrine by the live.

Question 13

Describe the placing of the Pancreas

Answer 13

The pancreas is a transversly placed organ just posterior of the inferior part of the stomach and superior of the two major blood vessels in the abdomen, the Abdominal aorta and the Inferior Vena Cava.

Question 14

Describe the shape of the pancreas

Answer 14

The head of the pancreas head is placed in the C shape of the duodenum and it is here the pancreatic duct ends in the “Sphincter of Oddi” into the Duodenum. the head and the body is the part further away from the head.

Question 15

Whats another name for the inferior part of the Head of the pancreas

Answer 15

The Uncinate process.

Question 16

Name a imaging technique that can show the Biliary tree

Answer 16

ERCP, Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio Pancreatogram.

Question 17

Describe the relation of the SMA/SMV

Answer 17

The SMA branches of posteriorly of the Head of the pancreas and comes out just inferiorly of the uncinate process, so does the SMV.

Question 18

Describe why the venous system is different in the abdomen compared to the rest of the body and what is it called.

Answer 18

All the venous blood collected in the abdomin are transported to the liver so that the liver can take care of all the nutrients collected from the processed food. this system is called the Portal venous system.

Question 19

What is a retriperitoneal organ

Answer 19

Its a organ placed fixated behind (retro) the Peritoneum in the abdomin.