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The Peritoneum and Upper Abdomen Viscera Flashcards

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Splanchnic is associated with what?

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Viscera

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Hepatic is associated with what

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The liver

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Cystic is associated with what?

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Gallbladder

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Colic is associated with what?

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Colon

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Recto is associated with what?

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Rectum

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What are the characteristics of the peritoneum?

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This translucent serous membrane

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What does the parietal peritoneum line?

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Lines the inner abdominal wall

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What does the visceral peritoneum line?

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The organs

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Organs behind the peritoneum are termed what?

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Retroperitoneal

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Where do vessels tend to travel in reference to the peritoneal layers?

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Between the layers in the mesenteries

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What is the peritoneal sac?

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All visceral and perietal peritoneal membranes

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What is a peritoneal cavity?

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A potential space within a sac

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What is the purpose of a peritoneal cavity?

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Allows organs to move freely without friction

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What fills a healthy peritoneal cavity?

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A small amount of serous fluid

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What are the structures in the portal triad?

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Hepatic artery proper, bile duct, and portal vein

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What ligament holds the liver to diaphragm and the anterior abdominal wall?

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The falciform ligament

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Where is the omental bursa?

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Posterior to the stomach, anterior to the left kidney, and medial to the spleen

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What is the opening to the omenta bursa?

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The omental foramen

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What does the greater omentum attach to?

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To the greater curvature of the stomach and the transverse colon

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What is the gastrocolic ligament?

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This is the “apron” part of the greater omuntum that drapes over the small intestine

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How many layers of peritoneum is the greater omentum?

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Four layers of peritoneum

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What are two functional purposes of the greater omentum?

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It can wall off infection and inflammation sites

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What are the three ligaments of the greater omentum?

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Gastrocolic ligament, gastrosplenic ligament, and gastrophrenic ligament

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What three things does the lesser omentum attach to?

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The lesser curvature of the stomach, the duodenum, and the liver

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What does the hepatogastric ligament attach?
The liver to the stomach
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What does the hepatoduodenal ligament attach?
The liver to the duodenum
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What is contained in the hepatoduodenal ligament?
The portal triad
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The greater omentum is a derivative of what?
The dorsal mesentery
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The lesser omentum is a derivative of what?
The ventral mesenteries
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What does the mesentery proper anchor?
Most of the small intestine to the abdominal wall
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What does the mesentery proper run between?
Duodenojejunal junction to the ileocecal junction
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About how long is the mesentery proper?
15-20 cm
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What does the suspensory ligament of Trietz attach?
The duodenum to the diaphragm to keep the duodenum from sagging?
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What part of the diaphragm does the ligament of Trietz descend from?
The left cruz
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What does the mesocolon anchor?
Portions of the colon to the posterior abdominal wall
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What part of the colon does not have mesentery?
Ascending and descending portions
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What anchors the transverse colon?
The transverse mesocolon
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What anchors the sigmoid colon?
The sigmoid mesocolon
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The supracolic compartment of the mesocolon contains what?
Stomach liver and spleen
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The infracolic compartment of the mesocolon contains what?
Small intestine, and ascending and descending colon
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What does the falciform ligament divide?
The liver into right and left lobes
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What is the inferior most part of the falciform ligament called?
The round ligament of the liver
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The inferior border of the falciform ligament contains what?
Obliterated umbilical vein
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What is the bare area of the liver?
This is a portion of the superior liver that has no covering and came through the septum transversum during development
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What is the coronary ligament?
Reflections of peritoneum around the bare area of the liver
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What does the coronary ligament attach?
This attaches the liver to the inferior surface of the diaphragm
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What is the fetal urachus?
Original allantoic diverticulum that persists throughout much of development as a stalk which extends from the bladder to the umbilical region
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What does the fetal urachus become?
Median umbilical ligament
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What does the median umbilical ligament attach to?
The apex of the bladder to the umbilicus
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What is the median inguinal fossae?
The fossae between the medial and lateral umbilical folds
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What is the median umbilical fossae also called?
Inguinal triangles or Hesselbach triangles
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Where are the lateral umbilical fossae?
Lateral to the lateral umbilical folds, including the deep inguinal rings
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What are the two major pouches in the abdominal cavity?
Hepatorenal pouch and rectovesical or rectouterine pouch
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Where is the hepatorenal pouch and what is the deepest part?
Between the liver and kidney and the deepest part is on the right side
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What is the hepatorenal pouch bounded by?
Liver, right kidney, colon, and duodenum
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What is the quadrate lobe of the kidney?
An indention of the posterior wall of the liver just medial to the gall bladder
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What is the caudate lobe of the liver?
This is an indention of the posterior superior wall of the liver just medial to the IVC
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Where is the gallbladder attached?
To the inferior surface of the liver
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What are the three parts of the gallbladder?
Fundus, body, and neck
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What does the gallbladder come into contact with?
Duodenum, colon, and anterior abdominal wall
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What is the arterial supply to the gallbladder?
Cystic artery
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How much bile is produced each day?
About 750 ml
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What do the right and left hepatic ducts receive?
Bile from the right and left lobes of the liver
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What does the common hepatic duct receive?
Bile from the left and right hepatic ducts
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What does the cystic duct connect to?
The gallbladder
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What does the common bile duct receive?
Cystic and common hepatic ducts
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The common bile duct joins with what before entering the duodenum?
Main pancreatic duct
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The common bile duct and main pancreatic duct enter the duodenum where?
The major duodenal papillae
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The major papillae of the duodenum is what major line of demarkation?
The line between the foregut and midgut
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What does the pancreas consist of?
Head, neck, body, tail, and uncinate process
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Is the pancreas retro- or intraperitoneal?
Retroperitoneal
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What surrounds the pancreas?
C shaped duodenum on right and spleen on left
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The pancreas has drainage into the duodenum at what two points?
The accessory duct and the main pancreatic duct connect to the minor duodenal papillae and the major duodenal papillae
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The spleen contacts the diaphragm along what ribs?
9 - 11
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What is the spleen connected to?
The greater curvature of the stomach and the left kidney
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What is contained in the gastrosplenic ligament?
The short gastric and gastro-omental vessels
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What is the ligament that connects the spleen to the left kidney?
Splenorenal ligament
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What is the ligament that connects the spleen to the stomach?
Gastrosplenic ligament
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The splenorenal ligament contains what?
Splenic vessels
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What is the splenic hilum?
This is an entry point for the splenic vessels and occasionally the tail of the pancreas reaches this area
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What is the arterial supply of the spleen?
Splenic artery of the celiac trunk
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What is the major arterial supply of the foregut?
Celiac trunk
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What is the major arterial supply of the midgut?
Superior mesenteric artery
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What is the major arterial supply of the hindgut?
Inferior mesenteric artery
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What are three main branches of the Celiac trunk?
Common hepatic, left gastric, and splenic aa.
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What vertebral level is the aortic hiatus?
T12
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What vertebral level does the aorta bifurcate into left and right common iliac aa?
L4
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Where in relation to the umbilicus is the aortic bifurcation?
2 - 3 cm inferior and left
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The celiac trunk supplies what
Liver, gallbladder, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, and spleen
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What are the two terminal branches of the common hepatic artery?
Proper hepatic artery and gastroduodenal artery
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What does the common hepatic artery split into?
The left and right hepatic arteries
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The common hepatic supplies what part of the stomach?
The lesser curve
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The gastroduodenal artery splits into what two branches?
The superior pancreaticosuodenal artery (posterior and anterior branches) and right gastroepiploic artery
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What does the gastroepiploic artery supply?
The greater curvature of the stomach
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What does the left gastric artery supply?
Stomach and esophagus (via esophageal branches)
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What does the splenic artery supply?
Pancreas and spleen
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The splenic artery branches into what?
Short gastric and left gastroepiploic arteries
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The short gastric arteries supply what?
The greater curvature of the stomach

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