Practical topic 35 Flashcards
Small and large intestines and their suspension
Give the parts of the small intestines
- Duodenum
- Jejunum
- Ileum
Duodenum
From → to
Pylorus → jejunum
Give the parts of the duodenum
- Flexura duodeni cranialis
-
Duodenum descendens
- In contact with parietal peritoneum
- Runs caudally towards the right kidney
- Flexura duodeni caudalis
- Duodenum transversa
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Duodenum ascendens
- Runs cranially
- Plica duodenocolica (ascending duodenum → descending duodenum)
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Flexura duodenojejunalis
- Susupended by the mesoduodenum
- Originates from the dorsal abdominal wall
- Encloses right lobe of pancreas
- Susupended by the mesoduodenum
Pappilas of the dudoenum
-
Papilla duodeni major
- Bile duct and pancreatic duct
-
Papilla duodeni minor
- Accessory pancreatic duct
Give the parts of the pancreas
Two lobes:
-
Left lobe
- In bursa omentalis
- left + right pole
- In bursa omentalis
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Right lobe
- In mesoduodenum
- Cranial + caudal pole
- In mesoduodenum
What is jejunum covered by
Omentum major
From which artery does jejunum receive nutrition?
A. mesenterica cranialis
What is jejunum suspended by
-
Mesojejunum
- From the dorsal abdominal wall
- At the ileocecal junction → continues with the descending mesocolon
What marks the position/length of ileum?
A. antimesenterica
What is localized between ileum and caecum?
Plica ileocolica
Fold between the ileum and the caecum
Give the parts of the large intestines
- Caecum
- Colon
- Rectum
What is the attachment between:
- Ileum to caecum
- caecum to colon
- Plica ileocaecale
- Plica caecocolica
Where does the caecum communicate with the ascending colon?
At the cecocolic orifice (ostium caecocolicum)
What is colon suspended by
Mesocolon
Give the parts of the colon
-
Colon ascendens
- Shortest
- Lies right to the root of the mesentery
- Flexura coli dextra
-
Colon transversus
- Right → left.
- Lies cranial to a. mesenterica cranialis
- Flexura coli sinistra
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Colon descendens
- Longest, wider mesocolon
- Dorsal and left in abdomen
What ends at the entrance of the pelvic inlet and becomes the rectum?
Plica duodenocolica
Between ascendens duodenum and descendens colon
Ends at the entrance of the pelvic inlet and becomes the rectum
At the level of which vertebrae does the rectum begin
At the level of L7
Which muscle forms the outer longitudinal layer of the rectum?
M. retrococcygeus
Give the suspensions of the mesentrium
- Mesoduodenum
- Mesojejunum
- Mesoileum
- Mesocolon
- Mesocolon ascendens
- Mesocolon transversum
- Mesocolon descendens
- Mesorectum
- Velum omentale
Mesoduodenum
- From dorsal abdominal wall to the duodenum
- Encloses right lobe of the pancreas
- Cranially: continuous with omentum majus
- Caudally: to duodenum flexura caudalis
Mesojejunum
From dorsal abdominal wall to jejunum
Mesoileum
From dorsal abdominal wall to ileum
Mesocolon
-
Mesocolon ascendens
- From dorsal abdominal wall to ascending colon
-
Mesocolon transversum
- From dorsal abdominal wall to colon transversum
-
Mesocolon descendens
- From dorsal abdominal wall to descending colon
Mesorectum
From dorsal abdominal wall to rectum
Velum omentale
Attachment between mesocolon and spleen
Blood supply to cranial duodenum
A. gastroduodenalis (ex. a hepatica, ex. a. coelica)
Blood supply to descending duodenum
A. pancreaticoduodenalis caudalis (ex. a. mesenterica cranialis)
Blood supply to jejunum
Aa. jejunalis (ex. a mesenterica cranialis)
Blood supply to ileum
- A. ilei mesenterialis ( ex. a. ileocaecocolica, ex. a. mesenterica cranialis)
- A. antimesenterica
Blood supply to caecum
A. caecalis (ex. a. ileocolica, ex. a. mesenterica cranialis)
Blood supply to colon ascendens
- R. colicus (ex. a. ileocolica)
- A. colica dextra (ex. a. mesenterica cranialis)
Blood supply to colon transversum
A. colica media (ex. a. mesenterica cranialis)
Blood supply to a. colon descendens
- A. colica sinistra (ex. a. mesenterica caudalis)
- A. colica media
Blood supply to rectum
A. rectalis cranialis (a. mesenterica caudalis)
Where does all the intestines drain into?
All the organs drain into venae portae to the liver

- Aorta abdominalis
- A. Celiaca
- A. splenica
- A. gastrica sinistra (left)
- Spleen
- Pancreas
- Stomach
- A. mesenterica cranialis
- A. mesenterica caudalis
- Colon descendens
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A. renalis
- Supplying the kidey
- A. iliacia circumflexa profundus
- → A. testicularis
- * Vaginal ring

- Ileum
- A. antimesenterica
- Plica ileocecalis
- Colon ascendens
- Colon transversum
- Fundus of the stomach
- * Cecum
- → Mesenteric lymph nodes
Pancreas, fresh tissue

- Left lobe of pancreas
- Omentum major
- Right lobe of the pancreas
- Mesoduodenum
- Body of the pancreas
- Stomach
- Descending duodenum
- Ascending duodenum
- Transverse colon
- Descending colon