Abdomen- Taylor

Question 0

What is peritoneum composed of?

Answer 0

Mesothelium

Thin CT

Question 1

Contents of abdominal cavity

Answer 1

Viscera
Peritoneum
Fluid-filled spaces

Question 2

What is the peritoneal cavity?

Answer 2

Part of abdominal cavity located between the parietal and visceral peritoneum
No organs!

Question 3

What are peritoneal mesenteries?

Answer 3

Extensions of parietal peritoneum from ab wall to ab organs

=visceral peritoneum

Question 4

What does the peritoneal mesentery allow for?

Answer 4

Neurovascular cnxs between nerves and BVs of posterior wall and organs

Question 5

What are peritoneal ligaments?

Answer 5

Tissue connecting organs to other organs or to the ab wall

Question 6

The course of the lesser omentum

Answer 6

Liver -> duodenum -> stomach

Question 7

What structure divides the peritoneal into its 2 sacs?

Answer 7

The omentum

Question 8

What is the epiploic foramen?

Answer 8

A passage that runs behind the lesser omentum and cnx the greater and lesser sacs

Question 9

What is the main arterial supply for the abdomen?

Answer 9

Abdominal aorta

Question 10

What do the paired branches of the abdominal aorta supply?

Answer 10

Nondigestive organs

Body wall

Question 11

What do the unpaired branches of the abdominal aorta supply?

Answer 11

Digestive organs

Spleen

Question 12

Name the arteries of the paired branches of the abdominal aorta:

Answer 12

Inferior phrenic
Superior suprarenal
Middle suprarenal
Renal
Gonadal 
Lumbar

Question 13

Name the branches of the celiac trunk that supply the digestive organs

Answer 13

Splenic artery
Common hepatic artery
Left gastric artery

Question 14

Name the unpaired branches of the abdominal aorta

Answer 14

Celiac trunk
Superior mesenteric artery
Inferior mesenteric artery

Question 15

What does the splenic artery supply?

Answer 15

Spleen
Pancreas
Greater curvature of stomach

Question 16

What does the common hepatic artery supply?

Answer 16

Liver
First part of duodenum
Part of duodenum

Question 17

What does the left gastric artery supply?

Answer 17

Abdominal esophagus
Stomach
(Foregut)

Question 18

What does the superior mesenteric artery supply?

Answer 18

Midgut

Small part of pancreas

Question 19

What does the inferior mesenteric artery supply?

Answer 19

Hindgut

Question 20

What does the abdominal aorta branch to at its ending?

Answer 20

Left and right common iliac arteries -> internal and external iliacs

Question 21

What is the drainage system for the parts that receive paired branches of the abdominal aorta?

Answer 21

Inferior vena cava

Question 22

What is the drainage system for parts that receive unpaired branches of the abdominal aorta?

Answer 22

The hepatic portal vein system

Question 23

What veins joined together to form the hepatic portal vein?

Answer 23

Splenic vein

Superior mesenteric vein

Question 24

Flow for hepatic portal vein

Answer 24

Artery -> capillary -> portal vein -> capillary -> vein

Question 25

What is the cisterna chyli?

Answer 25

A thin-walled lymphatic sac located on superior posterior abdominal wall
Contains milky lymph that is high in fat because fats don’t go thru the first pass system in the liver

Question 26

What gives rise to the thoracic duct?

Answer 26

Cisterna chyli

Question 27

What is the parasympathetic system up thru the first 2/3 of the transverse colon?

Answer 27

Vagus nerve

Question 28

What is the innervation of the rest of the small intestine?

Answer 28

The sacral spinal part of the craniosacral nervous system