Abdomen 3

Question 1

What is the largest internal organ of the body:

A. Skin

B. Liver

C. Stomach

D. Colon

Answer 1

B. Liver

Question 2

Is the liver the largest internal organ and the smallest gland?

Answer 2

No- it is the largest organ and the largest gland

Question 3

Every substance absorbed from the alimentary tract is received first by the liver except?

Answer 3

Lipids

Question 4

What does the liver store?

Answer 4

Glycogen

Question 5

What does the liver secrete?

Answer 5

Bile

Question 6

What are the two surfaces of the liver?

Answer 6

1. Diaphragmatic

2. Visceral

Question 7

Which of the surfaces of the liver are convex, smooth and dome shaped?

Answer 7

The diaphragmatic surface

Question 8

Which of the surfaces of the liver are relatively flat and concave?

Answer 8

The visceral surface

Question 9

What are the three recesses that separate the liver’s surfaces called?*

Answer 9

1. Subphrenic
2. Hepatorenal
3. Subhepatic

Question 10

Where is the liver mainly located:
A. RLQ
B. RUQ
C. A & B
D. Epigastric area

Answer 10

b. RUQ

Question 11

Does the liver move when a person breathes?

Answer 11

It may move.

Question 12

What are the lobes of the liver:
A. Left
B. Right
C. Inferior
D. Superior
E. 1&2 only

Answer 12

E. A&B only

Question 13

What are the Right and Left lobe separated by?

Answer 13

Falciform ligament

Question 14

What demarcates the Caudate and Quadrate lobes?

Answer 14

The sagittal fissures and porta hepatis

Question 15

Trace the pathway from Liver to Common Bile Duct.

Answer 15

Hepatocytes secrete bile into bile canaliculi— bile enters R & L hepatic ducts— after leaving the porta hepatis they unite to form the common hepatic duct—this is joined by the cystic duct to form the Common Bile Duct.

Question 16

Which other duct does the Bile Duct enter the Duodenum with?

Answer 16

The pancreatic duct

Question 17

Which organ is described as pear shaped?

Answer 17

the gallbladder

Question 18

What are the three parts of the gallbladder?

Answer 18

1. Fundus: wide end projecting from inferior border of liver (usually at tip of right 9th costal cartilage)
2. Body: contacts visceral surface of liver, transverse colon, superior part of duodenum.
3. Neck: narrow, tapered, directed toward porta hepatis

Question 19

Which duct has a spiral valve?

Answer 19

The cystic duct

Question 20

What does the Spiral valve do?

Answer 20

It keeps the cystic duct open

Question 21

What is the main channel of the portal venous system?

Answer 21

the Portal Vein

Question 22

What collects poorly oxygenated but nutrient-rich blood from the abdominal part of the alimentary canal to the liver?

Answer 22

The portal vein

Question 23

Where is there portal system anastomoses?

Answer 23

Where the portal venous and systemic venous system communicate- btwn the esophageal veins and azygous veins, with rectal veins and paraumbilical veins.

Question 24

With end stage liver disease what type of veins will one see by the caput medusae?

Answer 24

Dilated blue veins

Question 25

What are the kidneys surrounded by?*

Answer 25

Perinephric fat

Question 26

Which kidney is higher?

Answer 26

The Left is 2.5 cm higher than the Right

Question 27

T/F: In the hilum of the kidney the artery is anterior to the renal vein,

Answer 27

False. The artery is behind the vein.

Question 28

T/F The kidneys and ureters are retroperitoneal.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

Where are the 3 places the ureters are normally constricted?

Answer 29

1. junction of ureter with renal pelvis 2. where the ureter crosses the pelvic brim 3. during passage through the wall of the bladder.

Question 30

What is the clinical significance of the constricted locations of the ureters?

Answer 30

Those places are where stones are most likely to get stuck.

Question 31

What is yellowish, lies above the kidney and below the diaphragm?

Answer 31

The adrenal glands

Question 32

Do both adrenal glands have a hilum?

Answer 32

Yes

Question 33

Do the adrenal glands both have a cortex and medulla?

Answer 33

Yes

Question 34

What are some congenital abnormalities with the kidneys and ureters?,

Answer 34

1. Bifid kidney- kidney is indented in. | 2. Bifid Ureter- two ureters from each kidney.

Question 35

What can happen with a renal transplant?

Answer 35

The transplanted kidney will be placed closer to the pelvis and the non-functioning kidney wont be removed.