peritoneum

Question 1

what is the peritoneum?

Answer 1

a thin, transparent serous membrane lining the abdominopelvic cavity

Question 2

parietal peritoneum

Answer 2

lines the body wall and has somatic innervation

Question 3

visceral peritoneum

Answer 3

surrounds the organs and receives visceral innervation

Question 4

what is the peritoneal cavity?

Answer 4

the space between the visceral and parietal layers of peritoneum

Question 5

what is the only opening of the peritoneal cavity?

Answer 5

the uterine tubes

Question 6

intraperitoneal

Answer 6

refers to an organ almost completely surrounded by visceral peritoneum

Question 7

retroperitoneal/ extraperitoneal/ subperitoneal

Answer 7

organs are outside of the peritoneal cavity and only partially covered by peritoneum

Question 8

primary retroperitoneal

Answer 8

organs that developed and stayed away from the peritoneum

Question 9

secondary retroperitoneal

Answer 9

organs that initially begin development as intraperitoneal structures

Question 10

mesentery

Answer 10

double layer of peritoneum that connects an intraperitoneal organ to the body wall

Question 11

mesentery proper

Answer 11

surrounds the jejunum and ileum

Question 12

dorsal mesentery

Answer 12

majority of the mesentery, holds the organs in the peritoneal cavity to the posterior abdominal wall

Question 13

ventral mesentery

Answer 13

the portion of mesentery that connects to the anterior abdominal wall;
contains the liver and makes up the lesser omentum

Question 14

lesser omentum

Answer 14

double layered fold between the liver and the stomach/duodenum

Question 15

greater omentum

Answer 15

four layered peritoneal fold that loops from the stomach over the transverse colon

Question 16

what is the greater omentum derived from?

Answer 16

the dorsal mesogastrium

Question 17

what does the greater omentum adhere to?

Answer 17

the ventral surface of the transverse colon

Question 18

purpose of greater omentum

Answer 18

insulation and padding to the viscera, responds to areas of inflammation to wall off infection

Question 19

what does the lesser omentum originate from?

Answer 19

the ventral mesogastrium

Question 20

what is the lesser omentum composed of?

Answer 20

hepatoduodenal and gastrohepatic ligaments

Question 21

liver attachments

Answer 21

falciform ligament
hepatogastric ligament
hepatoduodenal ligament
coronary ligament
R & L triangular ligaments

Question 22

stomach attachments

Answer 22

gastrohepatic ligament
gastrophrenic ligament
gastrosplenic ligament
gastrocolic ligament

Question 23

spleen attachments

Answer 23

gastrosplenic ligament
phrenicosplenic ligament
splenorenal ligament

Question 24

male peritoneal pouch

Answer 24

rectovesicle

Question 25

female peritoneal pouches

Answer 25

vesicouterine, rectouterine

Question 26

greater sac

Answer 26

supracolic and infracolic divisions

Question 27

what divides the greater sac into its two parts

Answer 27

the transverse colon and the greater omentum

Question 28

opening between the greater and lesser sacs

Answer 28

the omental (epiploic) foramen

Question 29

where is the lesser sac located

Answer 29

posterior to the lesser omentum and stomach

Question 30

acronym for intraperitoneal structures

Answer 30

salted sprss

Question 31

intraperitoneal structures

Answer 31

stomach, appendix & cecum, liver & gallbladder, transverse colon, esophagus, duodenum (1/2 of first part), small intestines (j&i), pancreas tail, rectum (upper 1/2), sigmoid colon, spleen

Question 32

acronym for retroperitoneal structures

Answer 32

pearl ducks

Question 33

retroperitoneal structures

Answer 33

pancreas minus tail, esophagus (thoracic), aorta & IVC, rectum (inferior 1/2), liver (bare area only), duodenum (the rest of it), ureter, colon (ascending/descending), kidneys, suprarenal glands

Question 34

secondarily retroperitoneal structures

Answer 34

pancreas minus the tail, bare area of the liver, the rest of the duodenum, ascending and descending colon

Question 35

what separates the stomach and the duodenum?

Answer 35

the pyloric sphincter

Question 36

what do the parts of the duodenum wrap around?

Answer 36

pancreas

Question 37

parts of the stomach

Answer 37

cardia, fundus, body, pyloric antrum, pyloric canal

Question 38

what does the hepatoduodenal ligament contain?

Answer 38

the portal triad

Question 39

what is contained in the portal triad?

Answer 39

hepatic artery, bile duct, portal vein