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16 Cards in this Set
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Where is the fissure of the round ligament located?
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Between the quadrate lobe and the left medial lobe of the liver
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What is the round ligament a remnant of?
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Umbilical vein of fetus
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What are the 2 surfaces of the liver?
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Diaphragmatic (by diaphragm) and visceral (by the organs)
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What attaches the stomach to the liver?
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Gastrohepatic fold
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What is the renal fossa? Where is it located?
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Renal impression on the liver, where right kidney sits against it (on the caudate process of the caudate lobe)
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Nutritional supply of liver?
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Hepatic a.
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Functional supply of liver?
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Hepatic portal vein
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Where do the liver and gall bladder embryologically arise from?
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Hepatic diverticulum of endoderm
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Where is the hepatic portal vein located?
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B/w the papillary process and the caudate process of the caudate lobe
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Where does the hepatic vein drain to?
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Vena cava
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What is the ductus venosus?
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It connects the umbilical vein to hepatic venous system. It bypasses the liver in the fetus. It becomes ligamentum venosum after birth.
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What innervates the diaphragm?
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Phrenic nerve, which branches out into 3 branches once inside the diaphragm
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How is hepatomegaly diagnosed radiographically?
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Stomach can be seen farther caudally than normal. Axis of stomach fundus is changed from diagonal to more vertical.
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What connects the stomach to the spleen?
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Gastrosplenic ligament
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What connects the stomach to the liver?
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Gastrohepatic ligament
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Where does the cranial vena cava turn into the caudal vena cava?
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Once it passes the heart
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