Peritoneum Flashcards
What part of the peritoneum lines the abdominal wall
Parietal peritoneum
What part of the peritonrum covers the abdominal organs
Visceral peritoneum
What is the space between the visceral and parietal peritoneum
Peritoneal cavity
Is the peritoneal cavity completely closed off in men or women
In men
In females infections of what can cause an infection of the peritoneal cavity
Vagaina
How can a vaginal infection spread into the peritoneal cavity
The uterine tubes open up into the peritoneal cavity
What causes an increase risk of peritoneal cavity infection
Immuocompromised women
Unsanitary parturition conditions
What are the functions of the peritoneum?
Minimize friction between organs
resist infection/Accessory immune tissue
Fat storage
Where are retroperitoneal organs located
Posterior to the peritoneum, and only have peritoneum on their anterior surface
What is Ascites
Accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity
What can cause Ascites
Malnutrition Congestive heart failure Liver failure kidney failure peritonitis
What is peritonitis
Inflamation of the pertoneal cavity
What can cause pertonitis
Trauma
Inflamation
Vaginal infections
Perferating ulcers
What can cause adhesions between the layers of the peritoneal cavity
Pertonitis
What nerves innervate the pertoneum
Phrenic nerve Intercostal nerve Subcostal nerve Iliohypogastric nerve ilioinguinal nerve
What layer of the peritoneum is sensitive to pain
Parietal peritoneum
What layer of the pertoneum has autonomic innervation
Visceral peritoneum
What is the broad apronlike reflection of peritoneum
Omentum
Which omentum hangs from the greater curvature of the stomach
The greater omentum
Which ligament of the greater omentum attached from the greater curvature of the stomach to the diaphragm
Gastrophrenic Ligament
Which ligament of the greater omentum attached from the greater curvature of the stomac and the spleen
Gastrosplenic ligament
Which ligament of the greater omentum attached from the greater curvature of the stomac and the transverse colon
Gastrocolic
What makes the greater omentum have the name abdominal policeman
Adheres to areas of inflamation restricting spread of infectoin
Which omentum extends from the porta hepatis to the lesser curvature of the stomach
Lesser Omentum
What ligaments connect organs to one another or to the body wall
Peritoneal ligaments
what is a double layer of peritoneum which connects a portion of intestine to the body wall
Mesentery (general)
what connects the jejunum and ileum to the body wall
Mesentery (specific)
Mesentery proper
What structures do the transverse mesocolon connect
Transverse colon to the posterior body wall
What structures do the sigmoid mesocolon connect
Sigmoid colon to the pelvic wall
What structures do the mesoappendix connect
Appendix to the mesentery of the ileum
What attaches the left colic flexure to the diaphragm below the spleen
Phrenicocolic ligament
What is the peritoneal cavity divided into
Omental bursa
greater sac
where is the omental bursa located
Posterior to the liver
Where does the greater sac extend from
Diaphragm to the pelvic floor
What are the subdivisions of the greater sac
Right subphrenic space Left subphrenic space subhepatic space right paracolic gutter left paracolic gutter
During a perferated duodenal ulcer, what is the order of spaces that the fluid will follow
Hepatorenal recess
Right paracolic gutter
right iliac fossa
What is the opening between the omental bursa and greater sac
Omental foramen
What structures pass through the porta hepatis
Bile duct
Hepatic artery proper
Portal vein
