Stomach

Question 1

Where does the stomach set?

Answer 1

lies in the left hypochondrium, epigastric, and umbilical region of abdomen

Question 2

What kind of organ is the stomach?

Answer 2

distensible

Question 3

What is the function of the stomach?

Answer 3

primarily digestive rather than absorptive, stores and mixes food with gastric secretion converting it to chyme

Question 4

What are the parts of the stomach?

Answer 4

cardia
fundus
body
pyloric part

Question 5

Where is the cardia of the stomach?

Answer 5

where esophagus joins stomach

Question 6

Where is the fundus of the stomach?

Answer 6

above cardia

Question 7

Where is the body of the stomach?

Answer 7

between fundus and pyloric part

Question 8

Where is the pyloric part of the stomach?

Answer 8

most distal portion, adjacent to duodenum

Question 9

What are the curvatures of the stomach?

Answer 9

greater and lesser curvature

Question 10

What are the two notches of the stomach?

Answer 10

cardial and angular incisure

Question 11

Where is the cardial notch?

Answer 11

between esophagus and fundus

Question 12

Where is the angular incisure?

Answer 12

between body and pyloric part

Question 13

What are the two openings of the stomach?

Answer 13

cardial and pyloric orifice

Question 14

Where is the cardial orifice?

Answer 14

between esophagus and stomach

Question 15

Where is the pyloric orifice?

Answer 15

between stomach and duodenum

Question 16

What are the three parts of the pyloric part?

Answer 16

pyloric antrum, canal, and pylorus

Question 17

What is the pyloric antrum?

Answer 17

wide proximal part

Question 18

What is the pyloric canal?

Answer 18

narrow distal part

Question 19

What is the pylorus?

Answer 19

distal termination of the pyloric part which contains the pyloric orifice and pyloric sphincter

Question 20

What are Gastric folds (rugae)?

Answer 20

longitudinal folds of mucous membrane located in cavity of stomach to increase surface area

Question 21

What is the blood supply of the stomach?

Answer 21

branches of the celiac trunk

Question 22

What is the innervation of the stomach?

Answer 22

celiac plexus which originate from the sympathetic greater splanchnic nerves (T5-T9) and parasympathetic vagus nerve

Question 23

Celiac trunk is the first _______ branch from the abdominal aorta

Answer 23

unpaired

Question 24

What are the branches of the celiac trunk?

Answer 24

left gastric artery (smallest)
splenic artery (largest)
common hepatic artery

Question 25

What are the branches of the left gastric artery?

Answer 25

esophageal and gastric branches

Question 26

What are the branches of the splenic artery?

Answer 26

pancreatic branches short gastric arteries left gastro-omental

Question 27

Where does the left gastric artery go?

Answer 27

anastomoses with the right gastric artery

Question 28

Where does the splenic artery go?

Answer 28

spleen

Question 29

What does the common hepatic artery turn into after giving off the gastroduodenal artery?

Answer 29

hepatic artery proper

Question 30

Where does the pancreatic branches go?

Answer 30

pancreas

Question 31

Where does the short gastric arteries go to?

Answer 31

stomach

Question 32

What are the three branches of the gastroduodenal artery?

Answer 32

supraduodenal artery right gastro-omental artery superior pancreaticoduodenal artery

Question 33

Where does the supraduodenal artery go?

Answer 33

superior aspect of duodenum

Question 34

Where does the right gastro-omental artery go?

Answer 34

anastomoses with left gastro-omental artery

Question 35

What are the branches of the hepatic artery proper

Answer 35

right gastric artery right hepatic artery left hepatic artery

Question 36

Where does the right gastric artery go?

Answer 36

anastomoses with left gastric artery

Question 37

Where does the right hepatic artery go?

Answer 37

right lobe of liver

Question 38

What is the branch of the right hepatic artery?

Answer 38

cystic artery

Question 39

Where does the cystic artery go?

Answer 39

gall bladder

Question 40

Where does the left hepatic artery go?

Answer 40

left lobe of liver

Question 41

What is the variation with the left and right hepatic artery?

Answer 41

middle hepatic artery can form off the middle of the two