Surface anatomy

Question 1

What surface structures can be used to estimate the position of abdominal viscera?

Answer 1

xyphoid process 
costal margin 
line of albea 
semilunar line 
pubic tubercle 
ASIS
illiac crest 
inguinal ligament

Question 2

What does the costal margin separate?

Answer 2

ab wall from the thoracic wall

Question 3

What does the the ASIS and the pubic tubercle mark?

Answer 3

position of the inguinal ligament - sperates the anterior ab wall from the lower limb

Question 4

What does the iliac crest mark?

Answer 4

posterolateral ab from gluteal region of lower limb

Question 5

Where could the ab cavity project during the breathing cycle?

Answer 5

part of the ab cavity projects into up to the fourth costal cartilage. so this viscera is protected by the ribs