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22 Cards in this Set
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- 3rd side (hint)
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What is the esophagus's arterial supply?
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Left Gastric a. (from celiac trunk) and left inferior phrenic a.
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What is the esophagus's venous drainage?
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Abdomen: left gastric v.(drain to the portal system)
Thoracic: esophageal v. (drains to systemic venous) |
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What is the esophagus's Lymph drainage?
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Left gastric lymph nodes that drain to the celiac lymph nodes
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What is the nerve innervation of the esophagus?
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Vagal trunks, thoracic sympathetic trunk, greater splanchnic nerves, periarterial plexus
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What are the 3 main branches of the abdominal aorta?
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- Celiac Trunk
- Superior mesenteric a. - Inferior mesenteric a. |
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What is located in the peritoneal cavity?
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Fluid, leukocytes, antibodies, and no organs
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Remember how thick it is.
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What is the stomach's main function?
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Enzymatic digestion
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What is the name of the semiliquid substance that exits the stomach?
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Chyme
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Name the four parts of the stomach.
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- Cardia: opening
- fundus: dilater superior portion (5th intercostal space) - body: major part of the stomach - pyloric part: funnel shaped part |
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Name the 2 curvatures of the stomach.
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Greater: long convex border
Lesser: shorter concave border that contains the Angular Incisure. |
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What structures form the stomach bed?
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- left dome of the diaphragm
- spleen - left kidney and suprarenal gland - splenic artery - pancreas - transverse mesocolon - colon |
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What arteries anastomose around the lesser curvature?
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rt. and
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What arteries anastomose around the lesser curvature?
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rt. and l. gastric aa.
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What arteries anasomose around the greater curvature?
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rt. and l. gastro-omental aa.
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What is the blood supply for the fundus and under side of the stomach?
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short and posterior gastric aa.
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Stomach venous drainage
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l. and rt. gastric veins > portal vein
short and l. gastro-omental vein > splenic vein > superior mesenteric vein(SMV) > portal vein rt. gastro-omental vein (usually) > SMV |
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Gastric Lymphatic Vessels
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gastic and gastro-omental lymph nodes> pancreaticosplenic, pyloric, and pancreaticoduodenal lymph nodes> celiac lymph nodes
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What does the stomach's para-sympathetic nerve supply come from?
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ant. vagal trunk (mainly from the left vagus nerve) and posterior vagal trunk (mainly rt. vagus)
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What does the stomach's sympathetic nerve supply come from?
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T6-T9 segments of the spinal cord which passes to the Celiac Plexus.
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What is the largest internal organ and gland in the body?
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Liver
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what substance in the only one absorbed by the alimentary canal the liver doesn't receive first?
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lipids
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The falciform ligament seperates what spaces?
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rt. and l. subphrenic spaces
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