Abdominal cavity III

Question 1

What is the largest gland in the body?

Answer 1

Liver

Question 2

Name the 2 major functions of the liver

Answer 2

Cardohydrate metabolism

Detoxifying blood

Question 3

What % of body weight is the average liver?

Answer 3

2-3%

Question 4

Is it common to see smaller livers in older animals?

Answer 4

Yes due to atrophy

Question 5

Is the liver palpable in a healthy dog?

Answer 5

No

Question 6

What quadrants is the liver in?

Answer 6

Left and right cranial quadrant

Question 7

What is the diaphragmatic surface of the liver also called?

Answer 7

Parietal surface

Question 8

Where does the falciform and round ligament sit in respect to the liver?

Answer 8

Between left medial and quadrate lobe

Question 9

Where should a biopsy be taken on the liver?

Answer 9

Left of the xiphoid process

Question 10

What is the purpose of the coronary ligament?

Answer 10

COnnects the triangular ligaments to falciform ligament on diaphragm

Question 11

Where is the hepatorenal ligament located?

Answer 11

Connects caudate process of caudate lobe to right kidney

Question 12

What is the function of the gallbladder?

Answer 12

Temporarily store bile

Question 13

What are the segments of the gallbladder?

Answer 13

Neck, Body, Fundus

Question 14

What is the name of the duct that the gallbladder drains in to?

Answer 14

Cystic duct

Question 15

When does the cystic duct become the bile duct?

Answer 15

After left hepatic ducts join

Question 16

Where does the bile duct drain to?

Answer 16

Duodenum via major duodenal papilla

Question 17

Which lobe is the most common site for pancreatic biopsy?

Answer 17

Left lobe

Question 18

Which pancreatic lobe is located in the mesoduodenum?

Answer 18

RIght

Question 19

Where does the pancreatic duct drain to?

Answer 19

Major duodenal papilla w/ bile duct

Question 20

Which lobe does the pancreatic duct primarily drain?

Answer 20

Right lobe

Question 21

Which lobe does the accessory pancreatic duct primarily drain?

Answer 21

Left

Question 22

Where does the accessory pancreatic duct drain to?

Answer 22

Minor duodenal papilla

Question 23

Which pancreatic duct is only present in felines 20% of the time?

Answer 23

Accessory pancreatic duct

Question 24

How is it possible that 2 ducts can drain the entire pancreas?

Answer 24

Connection between pancreatic & accessory pancreatic ducts

Question 25

What is the sphincter of Oddi?

Answer 25

Opening of bile duct

Question 26

What quadrant is the spleen located?

Answer 26

Left cranial & left caudal

Question 27

Where does the abdominal aorta terminate?

Answer 27

L7

Question 28

What are the terminal branches of the abdominal aorta?

Answer 28

External iliac Internal iliac Median sacral

Question 29

What 3 major branches come off the celiac artery?

Answer 29

Splenic Left gastric Hepatic

Question 30

Which artery follows the mesoduodenum?

Answer 30

Caudal pancreaticoduodenal

Question 31

What artery supplis the ileum, cecum and colon?

Answer 31

Ileocolic artery

Question 32

Near which vertebrae does the caudal mesenteric branch from the abdominal aorta?

Answer 32

L5-L6

Question 33

What are the unpaired visceral branches from the abdominal aorta?

Answer 33

Celiac mesentery Cranial mesentery Caudal mesentery

Question 34

What are the paired visceral branches from the abdominal aorta?

Answer 34

Renal arteries Testicular arteries OVarian arteries

Question 35

What are anomalous veins?

Answer 35

Shunts | Irregularities

Question 36

What do the left & right common iliac veins anastomose to form?

Answer 36

Caudal vena cava

Question 37

What is the root vein of the portal vein? When does it become the portal vein?

Answer 37

Cranial mesenteric vein | After caudal mesenteric joins

Question 38

How does the portal circulation get back to caudal vena cava?

Answer 38

Portal vein becomes hepatic veins Hepatic veins dump in to caudal vena cava

Question 39

What is the normal venous pathway from intestines to caudal vena cava?

Answer 39

Cranial mesenteric vein + spelnic vein = Portal vein + liver = Hepatic vein to caudal vena cava

Question 40

What are portosystemic shunts?

Answer 40

Anomalous vessels that allow portal blood to pass directly to systemic circulation

Question 41

What is the clinical relevance of portosystemic shunts?

Answer 41

Allows blood to return to systemic circulation without detoxification

Question 42

What's the most common portosystemic shunt?

Answer 42

Extrahepatic

Question 43

How many vessels make up the extrahepatic portosystemic shunt?

Answer 43

1

Question 44

Is the portosystemic shunt congenital or acquired?

Answer 44

Congenital

Question 45

What is an intrahepatic portosystemic shunt?

Answer 45

Shunts inside the liver

Question 46

How many vessels make an intrahepatic portosystemic shunt?

Answer 46

Multiple

Question 47

Is an intrahepatic portosystemic shunt usually congenital or acquired?

Answer 47

Acquired

Question 48

Where is the most common site of the extrahepatic portosystemic shunt?

Answer 48

Epiploic foramen