Peritoneal Cavity

Question 1

What lines the inner abdominal wall?

Answer 1

Parietal peritoneum

Question 2

What covers organs?

Answer 2

Visceral peritoneum

Question 3

What allows organs to move freely without friction in the peritoneal sac?

Answer 3

Serous fluid

Question 4

What is the clinical term for the potential space of the peritoneal cavity becoming an actual space?

Answer 4

Ascites

Question 5

What connects to the greater curvature of the stomach and transverse colon, draping over the small intestine?

Answer 5

Greater omentum

Question 6

What attaches to the lesser curvature of the stomach/duodenum and the liver?

Answer 6

Lesser omentum

Question 7

Region of lesser omentum connecting liver to the stomach?

Answer 7

Hepatogastric ligament

Question 8

Region of lesser omentum connecting liver to the duodenum?

Answer 8

Hepatoduodenal ligament

Question 9

What anchors most of the small intestine to the posterior abdominal wall?

Answer 9

Mesentery proper

Question 10

Where does mesentery proper run?

Answer 10

Diagonally from duodenojejunal junctino to ileocecal junction

Question 11

What anchors the duodenum to the posterior abdominal wall?

Answer 11

Ligament of Treitz

Question 12

What anchors the transverse coon to the posterior abdominal wall?

Answer 12

Transverse mesocolon

Question 13

What anchors the sigmoid colon to the posterior abdominal wall?

Answer 13

Sigmoid mesocolon

Question 14

What anchors the ascending and descending colon to the posterior abdominal wall?

Answer 14

Themselves! (No mesentery)

Question 15

What divides the liver into right and left lobes?

Answer 15

Falciform ligament

Question 16

What anchors the liver to diaphragm and anterior body wall?

Answer 16

Falciform ligament

Question 17

What makes up the inferior border of the falciform ligament?

Answer 17

Ligamentum teres hepatis

Question 18

What attaches the liver to inferior surface of diaphragm?

Answer 18

Coronary ligament

Question 19

What portion of the liver is bare of peritoneum?

Answer 19

Upper posterior liver

Question 20

What layered peritoneal fold covers the fetal urachus?

Answer 20

Median umbilical fold

Question 21

What layered peritoneal fold covers the fetal umbilical aa.?

Answer 21

2 Medial umbilical folds

Question 22

What layered peritoneal fold covers the inferior epigastric vessels?

Answer 22

2 Lateral umbilical folds

Question 23

Potential peritoneal spaces in standing patients which become actual spaces in recumbent patients are?

Answer 23

Peritoneal pouches

Question 24

What peritoneal pouch is bound by the liver, right kidney, colon, and duodenum?

Answer 24

Hepatorenal pouch (Pouch of Morrison)

Question 25

What is the lowest point of peritoneal cavity when recumbent?

Answer 25

Hepatorenal pouch

Question 26

What peritoneal pouch is found between the rectum and bladder (or uterus)?

Answer 26

Rectovisical/Rectouterine pouch

Question 27

What detoxifies chemical products and produces bile?

Answer 27

Liver

Question 28

What stores bile for emulsification of fats?

Answer 28

Gallbladder

Question 29

What produces enzymes for digestion?

Answer 29

Pancreas

Question 30

What produces lymphocytes and filters blood?

Answer 30

Spleen

Question 31

What stores food prior to entering duodenum?

Answer 31

Stomach

Question 32

What is the primary site for chemical digestion?

Answer 32

Small intestine

Question 33

What is the secondary site for chemical digestion?

Answer 33

Large intestine

Question 34

What filters waste products out of blood?

Answer 34

The kidneys

Question 35

What produces steroid hormones?

Answer 35

Adrenal glands

Question 36

What is the superior lobe of the liver called?

Answer 36

Cuadate lobe

Question 37

What is the inferior lobe of the liver called?

Answer 37

Quadrate lobe

Question 38

What is the bare area of the liver called?

Answer 38

Diaphragmatic surface

Question 39

What is the inferior entrance for the portal triad (found inferiorly) of the liver?

Answer 39

Porta hepatis

Question 40

What is the gallbladders relationship to the liver?

Answer 40

The gallbladder is attached to the inferior surface of the liver.

Question 41

How does the gallbladder receive/drain bile?

Answer 41

Via bile ducts.

Question 42

What ducts receive bile from right and left lobes of the liver?

Answer 42

Right and Left hepatic ducts.

Question 43

What duct receives right and left hepatic ducts?

Answer 43

Common hepatic duct

Question 44

What duct is connected to the gall bladder?

Answer 44

Cystic duct

Question 45

What received cystic and common hepatic ducts?

Answer 45

Common bile duct

Question 46

What does the common bile duct join with before emptying into the major duodenal papilla?

Answer 46

Main pancreatic duct

Question 47

What part of the duodenum do the common bile and main pancreatic ducts empty?

Answer 47

Major duodenal papilla

Question 48

Where is the pancreas found?

Answer 48

Retroperitoneal and transverse across posterior abdominal wall to the left of the C-shaped duodenum and right of the spleen

Question 49

What are the two pancreatic ducts?

Answer 49

Main pancreatic duct (enters duodenum with bile duct at major duodenal papilla)

Question 50

What is the first major branch of the abdominal aorta inferior to the diaphragm?

Answer 50

Celiac Trunk

Question 51

What three arteries branch from the celiac trunk?

Answer 51

Common hepatic, Left gastric, and splenic aa.

Question 52

What is the right branch of the celiac trunk, running toward liver and gallbladder?

Answer 52

Common hepatic artery.

Question 53

What does the common hepatic artery spit into?

Answer 53

Proper hepatic and gastroduodenal aa.

Question 54

What is the superior branch of the common hepatic artery, runs toward liver?

Answer 54

Proper hepatic artery

Question 55

What is the proper hepatic arteries relationship to the common bile duct and portal vein?

Answer 55

Proper hepatic artery is medial to common bile duct and superficial to portal vein.

Question 56

What does the proper hepatic artery split into?

Answer 56

Right and left hepatic aa. (supplies right and left lobes of liver)

Question 57

What is the inferior branch of the common hepatic artery, running toward junction of stomach and duodenum?

Answer 57

Gastroduodenal artery

Question 58

What does the gastroduodenal artery send to the pancrease/duodenum?

Answer 58

Superior pancreaticoduodenal aa.

Question 59

What does the gastroduodenal artery send to the greater curvature of the stomach?

Answer 59

Right gastroepiploic a.

Question 60

What does the gastroduodenal artery send to the superior duodenum?

Answer 60

Supraduodenal artery

Question 61

What is the superior branch of the celiac trunk, runs left towards lesser curvature of stomach?

Answer 61

Left Gastric artery

Question 62

What is the left branch of the celiac trunk, runs towards spleen?

Answer 62

Splenic artery

Question 63

What does the splenic artery send off?

Answer 63

Short gastric aa. and left gastroepiploic a. to supply greater curvature of stomach

Question 64

What supplies the gallblader and cystic duct?

Answer 64

Cystic Artery

Question 65

Where does the cystic artery USUALLY arise from?

Answer 65

Right hepatic artery

Question 66

What supplies the right lesser curvature of the stomach?

Answer 66

Right gastric artery

Question 67

Where does the right gastric artery USUALLY arise from?

Answer 67

Proper hepatic artery