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Peritoneum Flashcards

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What are the subdivisions of peritoneum?

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  1. Parietal layer

2. Visceral layer (serosa)

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What is peritoneum?

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A serous membrane lining the cavity abdomen and covering the abdominal organs

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Describe the parietal layer of the peritoneum

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Lines the body wall and has abundant pain fibers via nerves from the body wall

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Describe the visceral layer (serosa) of the peritoneum

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Covers viscera and lacks pain fibers

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What is between parietal and visceral layers of the peritoneum?

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peritoneal cavity

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Define mesentery

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Double layers of visceral peritoneum. So they lack pain fibers
They are called reflections: part of peritoneal lining that is not right against the body wall or the organ. It is between organs. Most of the time it is suspending an organ from the body wall.

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Why are mesenteries important?

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They keep things in place, maintain relationships among structures in the abdominal cavity. Transmit major vessels and nerves.

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What are intraperitoneal organs?

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organs covered on most sides by visceral peritoneum

Suspended by mesentery from the body wall

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What are retroperitoneal organs?

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Organs that lie deep to the parietal peritoneum and are covered by parietal peritoneum on one side only (so they do not have any mesentery)

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What are examples of intraperitoneal organs-have a mesentery and are completely covered by the peritoneum?

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In the abdominal peritoneal cavity:
Stomach
Small intestine
Spleen
Liver
Gallbladder
Cecum
Large intestine

Pelvic peritoneal cavity:
Uterus
Ovaries
Uterine tubes

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What are the retroperitoneal organs?

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Primarily:
Kidneys, suprarenal glands, uterine cervix, ureters, gonads, aorta and inferior vena cava
Secondarily:
Duodenum (descending, horizontal, and ascending)
Ascending and descending colon
Pancreas and rectum (upper 2/3)

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What is the nerve supply to the peritoneum?

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Nerves from the adjacent body wall supply parietal peritoneum. The nerves supply pain and vasomotor fibers

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What is the difference between primarily retroperitoneal and secondarily retroperitoneal?

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Secondarily retroperitoneal became retroperitoneal during development

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What are the three main types of peritoneal reflections in adults?

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Mesenteries
Ligaments and folds
Omentum

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What are peritoneal reflections?

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Parts of peritoneal linings that are not against body wall or an organ, but sort of “hangs out” between structures in the abdomen

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What are mesenteries?

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2-layered fold of peritoneum

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What is THE mesentery?

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Attaches the “free” small intestine (jejunum and ileum) to the posterior body wall

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Define transverse mesocolon

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Mesentery of the transverse colon
Holds the transverse colon to the posterior body wall
Fuses with the posterior layer of the greater omentum

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Define sigmoid mesocolon

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Mesentery of the sigmoid colon

Holds the sigmoid colon to the posterior body wall

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What is mesoappendix?

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Mesentery of the vermiform appendix

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The mesenteries of the duodenum, ascending colon, descending colon and cecum are usually lost during development. Since they are no longer suspended by a mesentery these organs are ________ ________.

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Secondarily retroperitoneal

21
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Define peritoneal ligaments

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May be subdivisions of a larger structure
Usually transmit nerves and vessels
Usually lack connective tissue and are not the same as ligaments that join bones

22
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What are some examples of peritoneal ligaments?

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Gastrosplenic and splenorenal (lienorenal) ligament

23
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Define omentum

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(epiploon)

Broad, 2-4 layered sheet of peritoneum that attaches the stomach to other viscera

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Define lesser omentum

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Develops from the ventral mesogastrium (mesentery)
Runs from lesser curvature of the stomach to the liver

Subdivided into parts:
Hepatogastric ligament (stomach to liver)
Hepatoduodenal ligament (liver to duodenum)
25
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Define greater omentum

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Develops from the dorsal mesogastrium
4 layers
3 ligaments

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What are the three ligaments of the greater omentum?

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Gastrocolic ligament (stomach to transverse colon)
Gastrophrenic ligament (stomach to diaphragm)(continuous with phrenicosplenic ligament)
Gastrosplenic ligament (stomach to spleen)
27
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What peritoneal ligaments are associated with the liver?

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Coronary ligaments
Right and left triangular ligaments
Falciform ligament
Ligamentum teres hepatis

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What is a fold?

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A ridge or elevation in the peritoneum produced by underlying vessels

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What are fossae (fossa) or recesses?

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Depressions between folds

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What are examples of folds and fossa?

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Superior duodenal fold and fossa (recess)
Paraduodenal fossa
Inferior duodenal fold and fossa
Retroduodenal fossa
Fold formed by inferior mesenteric vein posterior to peritoneum

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Structures coursing through the extraperitoneal tissue form elevations on the interior abdominal wall called what?

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Peritoneal umbilical folds

32
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What are the umbilical folds?

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Median umbilical fold: inferiorly it forms the urachus (anchors the bladder). The fold is midline from bladder

Medial umbilical folds (2)

  • medial umbilical ligaments
  • obliterated umbilical as

Lateral umbilical folds (2)

  • inferior epigastric vessels
  • functional aa and vv
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What are supraumbilical structures located on the internal aspect of the anterior abdominal wall?

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Falciform ligament: curved remnant of the ventral mesogastrium
Ligamentum teres hepatis: Round ligament of the liver in its lower free border; obliterated umbilical vein

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Define supravesical fossa

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Fossa between the median and medial umbilical folds

Site for supravesical hernias (rare)

35
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Define medial inguinal fossa

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Fossa between the medial and lateral umbilical folds
Site for direct inguinal hernias
Also called inguinal triangle

36
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Define Lateral inguinal fossa

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Fossa lateral to the lateral umbilical folds

Site for indirect inguinal hernias

37
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What makes up most of the “potential” space within the abdomen?

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The greater sac

38
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What are the subdivisions of the greater sac?

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The greater sac and be subdivided into supracolic and infracolic regions by the colon and the transverse mesocolon

39
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Define supramesocolic (supracolic) region

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Superior and anterior to the liver and stomach

Includes hepatorenal and subphrenic spaces and fossae of the anterior wall

40
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What are the recesses and fossae of the peritoneal cavity?

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Subphrenic recess
Subhepatic/hepatorenal recess
Rectovesical/rectouterine recess

41
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The peritoneal cavity is a (open/closed) potential space between parietal and visceral layers of peritoneum

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Closed

42
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Define inframesocolic region

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Inferior and posterior part of the greater sac
Subdivided by mesenteries and “ligaments”
Clinically important spaces where intraperitoneal infections spread; phrenicocolic ligament limits the spread of fluid superiorly

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What are lateral to the ascending and descending colon?

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The infracolic compartments right and left paracolic gutters

44
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What are the upper and lower parts of the inframesocolic region divided by?

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THE mesentery into right and left infracolic spaces

45
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The lesser sac (omental bursa) develops as part of the _______

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Greater sac

46
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How do greater and lesser peritoneal sacs communicate?

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Through the epiploic foramen (of winslow)

47
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Where is the lesser sac?

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Posterior and inferior to the stomach

48
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What are the recesses of the lesser sac

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Superior recess: posterior to the liver
Inferior recess: Potential space between the 2 layers of the gastrocolic ligament
Splenic recess: Posterior to and left of the stomach

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How is the lesser sac clinically important?

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Important relationship to the liver, pancreas, stomach and spleen

Anatomy II Test I - Jourdan (10 decks)

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