Q2 Quiz #1 Flashcards
What are the components of a serous membrane?
- parietal layer
- visceral layer
What are the 3 main vessels supplying blood to the gut?
- celiac trunk
- superior mesenteric artery
- inferior mesenteric artery
What moves to the left/right during development?
Stomach moves to left
Liver moves to right
Where is the greater omentum located?
from the stomach to the transverse colon
Where is the lesser omentum located?
connects the smaller curvature of the stomach to liver
What plexus is found near the esophagus and what forms it?
Vagal plexus
Vagus nerve
What are the parts of the stomach?
- cardiac
- fundus
- body
- pyloric section
- pyloric sphincter
- greater curvature
- lesser curvature
- greater omentum
- lesser omentum
- duodenum ligament
What attaches the liver to the duodenum?
hepatoduodenal ligament
What ducts open up into the deodenum?
- common bile duct
- main pancreatic duct
Where do the 2 ducts open up in to the duodenum?
the major duodenal papilla
What are the parts of the small intestine?
- duodenum
- jejunum
- ileum
What is the mesentery?
pathway for vessels, nerves, and lymphatics
What are the parts of the large intestine?
- appendix (cecum)
- ascending colon
- transverse colon
- descending colon
- sigmoid colon
- rectum
What is the junction between the ascending color and transverse colon called?
right colic (hepatic) flexure
What is the junction between the transverse and the descending colon called?
left colic (splenic) flexure
What is the remanent of the umbilical vein?
Ligamentum teres
What is the remanent of the ventral peritoneum called?
Falciform ligament
What are the frontal lobes of the liver?
- right
- left
What are the lobes of the liver from the posterior view?
- left
- right
- cuboidal (top)
- quadrate (bottom)
What do vessels travel through to enter the liver?
Porta hepatis
What is in the porta hepatis?
- hepatic portal vein
- hepatic artery
- common hepatic duct
What two ducts create the common bile duct?
- cystic duct
- common hepatic duct
What is the function of the gallbladder?
Storage + concentration of bile
What is the function of bile in digestion?
Emulsification of fats
What is the flow of bile?
- produced in liver
- R/L hepatic ducts
- common hepatic ducts
- common bile duct
- major duodenal papilla (small intestine)
The main pancreatic duct opens where?
major duodenal papilla
What goes through the hilus of the spleen?
- splenic artery
- splenic vein
What is the function of the spleen?
- removal of dead RC from blood + their destruction
- immune functions
Where do the 3 main arteries that supply the gut come from?
the aorta
What does the celiac trunk supply blood to?
FOREGUT
1. abdominal esophagus
2. stomach
3. duodenum (beginning part)
4. liver
5. gallbladder
6. posterior part of pancreas
7. spleen
What does the superior mesenteric artery supply blood to?
MIDGUT
1. duodenum (rest of it)
2. jejunum
3. ileum
4. cecum
5. appendix
6. ascending and transverse colon (to the left/splenic flexure)
What does the inferior mesenteric artery supply blood to?
HINDGUT
1. descending colon
2. sigmoid colon
3. rectum
What are the 3 primary branches of the celiac trunk?
- hepatic artery
- left gastric artery
- splenic artery
What is the parasympathetics of the gut controlled by?
VAGUS or S2-S4
synapse in gut wall
Where is the sympathetics of the gut?
via thoracic and lumbar splanchnic nerves
neurons are in the thoraco- portion of the sympathetic chain
synapse in pre-aortic ganglia
Where does T5-T9 go to?
celiac ganglion
Where does T10-T11 go to?
superior mesenteric ganglion
Where does the lumbar go to?
inferior mesenteric ganglion
Where does the pelvic splanchnic nerves/plexus come from?
sacral
What is the function of the oral cavity?
ingestion and fragmentation
What is the function of the stomach?
fragmentation and digestion
What is the function of the small intestine?
digestion and absorption of NUTRIENTS
What is the function of the large intestine?
solidification and absorption of WATER
What are the two defense mechanisms of the digestive tract?
- surface defense mechanisms
- specific immune responses (GALT)
What is surface defense mechanisms?
production of saliva/mucous
What is specific immune responses by the GALT?
immune cells
Ex. Peyer’s patches
Neutralization of the pH due to acids for digestion is an example of what?
Surface defense mechanisms
What is the general organization of the GI tract?
- mucosa
a. epithelium
b. CT (lamina propria)
c. muscularis mucosa (smooth muscle) - submucosa + MEISSNER’S PLEXUS
- muscularis externa
a. inner circular layer of smooth muscle
b. AUERACH’S PLEXUS
c. outer longitudinal layer of smooth muscle - serosa
What are mucosal glands?
glands only in the mucosa (innermost layer)
What are submucosal glands?
glands that go through the mucosa and submucosa
How is the GI tract regulated?
- nervous system
a. enteric NS (intrinsic)
b. autonomic NS (extrinsic) - hormones
What makes up the intrinsic regulation?
- Meissner’s (submucosal) plexus
- Auerbach’s (myenteric) plexus
**Interstitial cells of Cajal (pacemakers)
What hormones are secreted by enteroendocrine cells in the digestive tract?
- gastrin
- ghrelin
- motilin
- cholecystokinin (CCK)
What muscle is the esophagus made out of?
1/3 skeletal muscle
2/3 smooth muscle
What prevents the backflow of acid to the esophagus?
diaphragm and esophageal sphincter
What epithelium is the esophagus?
Stratified squamous epithelium (NK)
What two parts of the GI tract have submucosal glands?
- esophagus
- duodenum
What is a special feature of the stomach that makes it unique from the rest of the GI tract organization?
3 layers to the mucularis externa
1. innermost oblique layer
2. inner circular layer
3. outer longitudinal layer
What are the folds in the stomach called?
rugae
What is the epithelium of the stomach?
simple columnar epithelium with goblet cells
What is the difference between gastric pits and gastric glands?
gastric glands are deeper
gastric pits only have surface mucous cells
What cells are in a gastric gland?
- surface mucous cells (secrete mucous)
- parietal (oxyntic) cells (secrete HCl)
- chief cells (secrete pepsinogen)
- enteroendocrine cells (secrete hormones)
- stem cells