The diaphragm

Question 1

what is the diaphragm

Answer 1

A layer of skeletal sheet which separates the thorax from the abdomen

Question 2

How many attachments does it have?

Answer 2

4 major

Question 3

Hiatuses

Answer 3

T8-IVC
T10-oesophagus
T12-aorta

Question 4

What the central tendon shaped like?

Answer 4

A clover

Question 5

What is the diaphragm used for?

Answer 5

• Respiration
• Coughing
• Vomiting
• Defaecation

Question 6

Which ribs is it attached to?

Answer 6

7-10

Question 7

which part of the heart is it attached to the central tendon?

Answer 7

The fibrous pericardium through the central tendon

Question 8

What is the diaphragm covered in at the superior border?

Answer 8

Parietal pericardium

Question 9

What is a hiatus hernia

Answer 9

A protrusion through the abdominal wall due to a weakness in the wall

Question 10

What should damage to the breast be associated with and why?

Answer 10

Associated with damage to the diaphragm as it moves top to rib 5 during expiration

Question 11

Innervation

Answer 11

Phrenic nerves: divides into left and right from C3/C4/C5

Question 12

Damage to the phrenic nerve will lead to…

Answer 12

damage to the ipsilateral dome

Question 13

What is a crus?

Answer 13

Tendinious enlongation from the diaphragm to the vertebral column

Question 14

Right Crus Origin?

Answer 14

L1,L2,L3

Question 15

Left Crus origins

Answer 15

L1,L2

Question 16

Does it descend or ascend on contraction

Answer 16

descend