Peritoneal Cavity Flashcards
What lines the inner abdominal wall?
Parietal peritoneum
What covers organs?
Visceral peritoneum
What allows organs to move freely without friction in the peritoneal sac?
Serous fluid
What is the clinical term for the potential space of the peritoneal cavity becoming an actual space?
Ascites
What connects to the greater curvature of the stomach and transverse colon, draping over the small intestine?
Greater omentum
What attaches to the lesser curvature of the stomach/duodenum and the liver?
Lesser omentum
Region of lesser omentum connecting liver to the stomach?
Hepatogastric ligament
Region of lesser omentum connecting liver to the duodenum?
Hepatoduodenal ligament
What anchors most of the small intestine to the posterior abdominal wall?
Mesentery proper
Where does mesentery proper run?
Diagonally from duodenojejunal junctino to ileocecal junction
What anchors the duodenum to the posterior abdominal wall?
Ligament of Treitz
What anchors the transverse coon to the posterior abdominal wall?
Transverse mesocolon
What anchors the sigmoid colon to the posterior abdominal wall?
Sigmoid mesocolon
What anchors the ascending and descending colon to the posterior abdominal wall?
Themselves! (No mesentery)
What divides the liver into right and left lobes?
Falciform ligament
What anchors the liver to diaphragm and anterior body wall?
Falciform ligament
What makes up the inferior border of the falciform ligament?
Ligamentum teres hepatis
What attaches the liver to inferior surface of diaphragm?
Coronary ligament
What portion of the liver is bare of peritoneum?
Upper posterior liver
What layered peritoneal fold covers the fetal urachus?
Median umbilical fold
What layered peritoneal fold covers the fetal umbilical aa.?
2 Medial umbilical folds
What layered peritoneal fold covers the inferior epigastric vessels?
2 Lateral umbilical folds
Potential peritoneal spaces in standing patients which become actual spaces in recumbent patients are?
Peritoneal pouches
What peritoneal pouch is bound by the liver, right kidney, colon, and duodenum?
Hepatorenal pouch (Pouch of Morrison)
What is the lowest point of peritoneal cavity when recumbent?
Hepatorenal pouch
What peritoneal pouch is found between the rectum and bladder (or uterus)?
Rectovisical/Rectouterine pouch