Pelvic Anatomy Flashcards
What is the paritoneal pouch located between the rectum and the genitals?
Rectogenital pouch
What is the peritoneal pouch located between the genitals and the bladder?
Vesiculogenital pouch
What is the peritoneal pouch located between the pubic bone and the bladder?
Pubovesicular pouch
What are the 2 poles of the kidney?
Cranial and caudal poles
What are the 2 capsules of the kidney called?
Renal capsule (connective tissue)
Adipose capsule (fat)
What word describes something covered on one side by peritoneum (like the kidney)
Retroperitoneal
Where is the right kidney located?
T16, T17, T18, L1
Where is the left kidney located?
T18, L1, L2, L3
What is the topographical region where vessels and ureter enter and leave kidney?
Renal hilus
What is the indented space on the kidney where vessels are located (usually filled with fat)?
Renal sinus
What is the funnel shaped structure to the start of the ureter?
Renal pelvis
What is something unique that is added to the horse’s urine in the pelvis?
Mucous
What is the extension of the pelvis towards the poles of a horse called?
Terminal recess
What is the ridge of tissue in the kidney that drains directly into the renal pelvis?
Renal crest
What 2 spots in the horse urinary system is mucous added?
Renal pelvis
Proximal 1/3 of ureter
Where is the ureter contained in the male horse?
In the genital fold
Where is the ureter located in the female horse?
Broad ligament
What are the 3 ligaments that hold the bladder in place?
Left lateral ligament
Right lateral ligament
Median ligament
What are the 3 parts of the bladder?
Apex
Body
Neck (junction with urethra)
What is the topographical region of the bladder located on the dorsal wall and formed by the left and right ureter as well as the internal urethral orifice?
Trigone
What are the 2 urethral orifices?
internal urethral orifice
external urethral orifice
What is the vestige of fetal connection of urachus of bladder to belly button
Patent urachus
Where is the adrenal gland located relative to each kidney?
Medial
How can you tell the difference between a lymph node and an adrenal gland?
Adrenal gland has a cortex and medulla
What is a singular hip bone?
os coxae
What are multiple hip bones (2 hip bones)
Ossa coxarum
What is 1 bony pelvis formed from?
Fusion of sacrum, 3 vertebrae, and 2 hip bones
What is the slope of the pelvis defined by?
The slope between the ischiadic tuberosity and the tuber coxae
What is found along the slope of the pelvis?
The greater trochanter of the femur
What is the dorsal boundary of the pelvic inlet?
Sacrum
What is the ventral boundary of the pelvic inlet?
Cranial edge of pubis
What is the lateral boundary of the pelvic inlet?
Arcuate line of ileum
What is the dorsal to ventral diameter of the pelvic inlet called?
Conjugate diameter
What is the lateral measurement of the pelvic inlet called?
Transverse diameter
What is the dorsal boundary of the pelvic outlet?
Caudal vertebrae 1-3
What is the ventral boundary of the pelvic outlet?
Ischial arch
What is the lateral boundary of the pelvic outlet?
Sacrosciatic ligament (very different in horse, much wider)
What fused vertebrae form the sacrum?
S1-S5
What is the prominence from S1 of the sacrum called?
Promontory
What does the fusion of the transverse processes of the vertebrae form?
Lateral sacral crest
(Median sacral crest may be present in old horses)
What is the hollow space inside the sacrum?
Sacral canal
What is the ligament from the tuber sacrale to lateral sacral crest?
Sacroiliac ligament
What is the ligament that passes from the lateral sacral crest to ischiadic spine and tuberosity?
Sacrosciatic ligament
What notch is located cranial to ischiadic spine?
Greater sciatic notch
What notch is located caudal to ischiadic spine?
Lesser sciatic notch
What passes through the greater sciatic notch?
Sciatic nerve
Cranial gluteal artery
What passes through the lesser sciatic notch?
Internal obturator
What is the dorsal superficial boundary of the perineum?
Root of the tail
What is the dorsal deep boundary of the perineum?
End of the sacrum
What is the ventral superficial perineum?
Scrotum or base of mammary gland
What is the ventral deep boundary of the perineum?
Ischial arch
What is the common term for perineal body?
Taint
What is the dorsal nerve of the penis/clitoris?
Pudendal nerve
What nerve innervate the anal sphincter and skin of perineum?
Caudal rectal nerve
What are the 3 nerves that the sciatic nerve gives off?
Cranial gluteal
Caudal gluteal
Caudocutaneous femoral
What is the flow of blood at the end of the aorta?
Deep circumflex iliac
External iliac
Internal iliac
What is the external iliac?
L4-L5
What is the last branch of the aorta?
Internal iliac
Where is the internal iliac artery?
L5-L6
What does the internal iliac split into?
Internal pudendal and caudal gluteal
What are the 4 layers of the scrotum?
1)Skin
2)Dartos
3) Fascia
4) Parietal vaginal tunic
What is the indentation at the midline of the scrotum called?
Raphe
What is the orientation of the testes?
Horizontally
What is the capsule of fibrous tissue and smooth muscle around the testis?
Tunica albuginea
What is the head of the epididymis for the horse?
Cranial pole
What are the contents of the spermatic cord?
TNAVL
ductus deferens
Visceral vaginal tunic