Stomach, Celiac Trunk, Liver, Gall Bladder, Spleen Flashcards
What are the two surfaces of the stomach?
Anterior and Posterior
What borders the stomach?
The lesser curvature and greater curvature, and the angular notch
What are the two orifices of the stomach?
The cardiac/cardial notch and the pyloric sphincter
The cardia, fundus, body and pyloric part are areas of the _____.
Stomach
What are the functions of the stomach?
Storage, Mixing, Physical Breakdown, Chemical Breakdown, Controlled Release
What does the stomach use for storage? What causes the wrinkling?
Rugae; The muscular layer
Chyme is a
semifluid mixture of partly digested food w/water and gastric juice; creamy medium
The physical breakdown of food within the stomach is through
smooth muscle of the muscularies externa and HCL
The chemical breakdown within the stomach uses
Pepsin
The _____ regulates the movement of chyme into the small intestine.
pyloric sphincter
This inner layer of the stomach contains gastric pits that penetrate deep within the layer, forming ducts whose walls are lined with various gastric glands.
Mucosa
____ secrete mucus; Superficial Cells
Mucous surface cells
_____ line the upper walls/necks of the ducts; they also secrete mucus
Mucous neck cells
_______ secrete HCl and intrinsic factor
Parietal (Oxyntic) cells
The dorsal aorta becomes the abdominal aorta at the
aortic hiatus
The abdominal aorta ends by
dividing into the left and right common iliac arteries
Name the unpaired branches of the abdominal aorta:
1) Celiac Trunk
2) Superior Mesenteric artery
3) Inferior Mesenteric artery
4) Median Sacral artery
Name the paired branches of the abdominal aorta:
1) Inferior Phrenic arteries
2) Middle suprarenal arteries
3) Renal arteries
4) Gonadal arteries
5) Lumbar arteries
The Celiac Trunk is composed of the
1) Left Gastric Artery
2) Splenic Artery
3) Common Hepatic Artery
The ____ artery is the smallest branch of the celiac trunk
Left Gastric
The Left Gastric artery supplies the
esophagus and stomach
True/False: The Left Gastric Artery is an anastomoses with the Right Gastric Artery
True
The ____ is the largest branch of the celiac trunk
Splenic artery
This is in relationship to splenorenal ligament
Splenic artery
What does the Fundus of the stomach typically hold?
Gas
Peristalis is the _____ via smooth mucle of the mucularis externa and HCl
Physical Breakdown
The splenic artery supplies ____
the pancreas, stomach, greater omentum, spleen
The Enterendocrine cells are also referred to as the
“G cells”
The Chief (Zygomenic) cells
secrete pepsinogen and gastric lipase