PERITONEUM

Question 1

Two continuous layers of peritoneum

Answer 1

PARIETAL PERITONEUM

VISCERAL PERITONEUM

Question 2

Lining the internal surface of the abdomino-pelvic wall

SENSITIVE to pressure, pain, heat and cold

PAIN IS GENERALLY LOCALIZED

Served by the same blood and lymphatic vasculature and same somatic nerve supply as the region of the wall it lines

Answer 2

PARIETAL PERITONEUM

Question 3

Investing organs/viscera

INSENSITIVE to touch, heat, cold and stimulated primarily by stretching

PAIN IS POORLY LOCALIZED

Served by the same blood and lymphatic vasculature and same visceral nerve supply as the organs it covers

Peritoneum and viscera are located in the abdominopelvic cavity

Answer 3

VISCERAL PERITONEUM

Question 4

Relationship of the viscera to the peritoneum

Answer 4

INTRAPERITONEAL ORGANS

EXTRAPERITONEAL, RETROPERITONEAL AND SUBPERITONEAL

Question 5

Covered with visceral peritoneum

Answer 5

Intrapeironeal organs

Question 6

Outside, external or posterior to the parietal peritoneum

Partially covered with peritoneum (usually on one surface)

Answer 6

EXTRAPERITONEAL, RETROPERITONEAL AND SUBPERITONEAL

Question 7

If an abdominal infection spread RETROPERITONEALLY, which of the ff structures would most likely be affected

Answer 7

DESCENDING COLON

Question 8

Glistening transparent serous membrane

Answer 8

Peritoneum