Abdominal Viscera 1 Flashcards
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what does peritoneum mean?
peri = around
teino = to stretch
peritoneum means to stretch around viseral organs
What is the peritoneum?
serous membrane that lines/encapsulates the walls of the abdominal and pelvic cavities while covering many organs. It forms a sac that encloses peritoneal cavity
what is the most external layer of the peritoneum?
parietal layer
What is the most internal layer of the peritoneum?
visceral layer
What does the visceral layer surround?
intraperitoneal organ
what is the peritoneal cavity?
empty space between the parietal and the visceral layer of the peritoneum
what is the mesentary
double folding that connects the parietal and visceral peritoneum that leads into intaperitoneal organs
parietal peritoneum
wrap around/lines ab contents and ab wall, inferior diaphragm, pelvic walls, and roof over pelvic viscera (bladder, uterus, scrotum, etc). It lines outer wall of abdominal
parietal
wall
visceral
organ
visceral peritoneum
covers internal organs that are hanging in ab cavity - ie liver, stomach, GI tract `
Greater sac
Bottom of diaphragm to superior pelvis `
Lesser sac
behind the stomac, upward border is diaphrgam, doownward layer is going to be in btw layers of greater omentum
left border is spleen
right border of epiploic foramen of winslow
what separates the greater sac and the lesser sav?
greater omentum from greater curvature of the stomach
epiploic foramen of winslow
only natural communication btw greater sac and lesser sac
borders of epiploic foramen of winslow
anteriror - lesser omentum
Posterior - IVC
Superior - caudate lobe of the liver
Inferior - first part of duodenum
main difference between parietal abd visceral peritoneum
pariteal lines the ab cavity, visceral covers organs
intraperitoneal
things that are completely covered in peritoneum (ie liver, stomach, spleen, jejenum, ilieum). These organs are hung in ab cavitiy by mesentary
Retroperitoneal
organs with their anterior surface covered by peritoneum. along the ab wall. include
S uprarenal/adrenal glands
A bdominal Aorta and IVC
D uodenum (pts 2-4)
P ancreas
U reters
C olon (ascending and descending)
K idneys
E sophagus
R ectum (proximal 1/3)
are the intestines retroperitoneal?
NO! the intestines are intraperitoneal - they are completely covered in peritoneum
IS the kidney retroperiteneal?
Yes! The kidney is partially covered in paritoneum (its anterior surface)
what are the 4 double petioneal folds?
mesentery, lesser omentum, greater omentu,, ligaments
lesser omentum
double folding of peritoneal, hung between the liver and the lesser furve of the stomach
mesentary
abdominal organ made of both layers (pariteal and visceral) of the peritoneum. Function if is to attach inrteperitoneal organs to the ab wall and provide neorovvascular communication between these organs and the ab wall