Peritoneum

Question 1

What part of the peritoneum lines the abdominal wall

Answer 1

Parietal peritoneum

Question 2

What part of the peritonrum covers the abdominal organs

Answer 2

Visceral peritoneum

Question 3

What is the space between the visceral and parietal peritoneum

Answer 3

Peritoneal cavity

Question 4

Is the peritoneal cavity completely closed off in men or women

Answer 4

In men

Question 5

In females infections of what can cause an infection of the peritoneal cavity

Answer 5

Vagaina

Question 6

How can a vaginal infection spread into the peritoneal cavity

Answer 6

The uterine tubes open up into the peritoneal cavity

Question 7

What causes an increase risk of peritoneal cavity infection

Answer 7

Immuocompromised women

Unsanitary parturition conditions

Question 8

What are the functions of the peritoneum?

Answer 8

Minimize friction between organs
resist infection/Accessory immune tissue
Fat storage

Question 9

Where are retroperitoneal organs located

Answer 9

Posterior to the peritoneum, and only have peritoneum on their anterior surface

Question 10

What is Ascites

Answer 10

Accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity

Question 11

What can cause Ascites

Answer 11

Malnutrition
Congestive heart failure
Liver failure
kidney failure
peritonitis

Question 12

What is peritonitis

Answer 12

Inflamation of the pertoneal cavity

Question 13

What can cause pertonitis

Answer 13

Trauma
Inflamation
Vaginal infections
Perferating ulcers

Question 14

What can cause adhesions between the layers of the peritoneal cavity

Answer 14

Pertonitis

Question 15

What nerves innervate the pertoneum

Answer 15

Phrenic nerve
Intercostal nerve
Subcostal nerve
Iliohypogastric nerve
ilioinguinal nerve

Question 16

What layer of the peritoneum is sensitive to pain

Answer 16

Parietal peritoneum

Question 17

What layer of the pertoneum has autonomic innervation

Answer 17

Visceral peritoneum

Question 18

What is the broad apronlike reflection of peritoneum

Answer 18

Omentum

Question 19

Which omentum hangs from the greater curvature of the stomach

Answer 19

The greater omentum

Question 20

Which ligament of the greater omentum attached from the greater curvature of the stomach to the diaphragm

Answer 20

Gastrophrenic Ligament

Question 21

Which ligament of the greater omentum attached from the greater curvature of the stomac and the spleen

Answer 21

Gastrosplenic ligament

Question 22

Which ligament of the greater omentum attached from the greater curvature of the stomac and the transverse colon

Answer 22

Gastrocolic

Question 23

What makes the greater omentum have the name abdominal policeman

Answer 23

Adheres to areas of inflamation restricting spread of infectoin

Question 24

Which omentum extends from the porta hepatis to the lesser curvature of the stomach

Answer 24

Lesser Omentum

Question 25

What ligaments connect organs to one another or to the body wall

Answer 25

Peritoneal ligaments

Question 26

what is a double layer of peritoneum which connects a portion of intestine to the body wall

Answer 26

Mesentery (general)

Question 27

what connects the jejunum and ileum to the body wall

Answer 27

Mesentery (specific) | Mesentery proper

Question 28

What structures do the transverse mesocolon connect

Answer 28

Transverse colon to the posterior body wall

Question 29

What structures do the sigmoid mesocolon connect

Answer 29

Sigmoid colon to the pelvic wall

Question 30

What structures do the mesoappendix connect

Answer 30

Appendix to the mesentery of the ileum

Question 31

What attaches the left colic flexure to the diaphragm below the spleen

Answer 31

Phrenicocolic ligament

Question 32

What is the peritoneal cavity divided into

Answer 32

Omental bursa | greater sac

Question 33

where is the omental bursa located

Answer 33

Posterior to the liver

Question 34

Where does the greater sac extend from

Answer 34

Diaphragm to the pelvic floor

Question 35

What are the subdivisions of the greater sac

Answer 35

``` Right subphrenic space Left subphrenic space subhepatic space right paracolic gutter left paracolic gutter ```

Question 36

During a perferated duodenal ulcer, what is the order of spaces that the fluid will follow

Answer 36

Hepatorenal recess Right paracolic gutter right iliac fossa

Question 37

What is the opening between the omental bursa and greater sac

Answer 37

Omental foramen

Question 38

What structures pass through the porta hepatis

Answer 38

Bile duct Hepatic artery proper Portal vein