Abdominal Wall & Fascia
This superficial fascia layer of the abdominal wall contains primarily fat.
What is Camper’s fascia?
This artery is the first major branch of the abdominal aorta and supplies the foregut. What is it and what spinal level does it branch off at?
What is the celiac trunk?
The bare area of this organ lacks peritoneal covering.
What is the liver?
This nerve runs anterior to the psoas major and has 2 branches. What nerve is this and which branch is medial?
What is the genitofemoral nerve and the genital branch?
Identify the pinned structure.
What is the Ala?
This muscle contributes to the formation of the cremaster muscle in males.
What is the internal oblique muscle?
What is the direct parent artery of the pinned artery?
What is the gastroduodenal artery?
This foramen allows communication between the greater and lesser sacs.
What is the omental (epiploic) foramen?
What spinal levels contribute to this nerve?
What is L1?
Name the three muscles that compose this group.
What are the puborectalis, pubococcygeus, and iliococcygeus muscles?
Below this line, what forms the posterior rectus sheath?
What is only transversalis fascia?
What arteries does this artery give rise to?
What are the short gastric arteries, left gastroomental, and the pancreatic branches?
Name the three structures contained within this ligament.
What are the hepatic artery proper, portal vein, and common bile duct?
This nerve provides somatic motor innervation to the cremaster muscle.
What is the genital branch of the genitofemoral nerve?
What spinal levels contribute to this nerve?
What are S2, S3, and S4?
The median umbilical ligament is a remnant of this fetal structure.
What is the urachus?
Through what artery does anastomosis create collateral circulation between the celiac trunk and SMA?
What is the superior/inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery?
These two ligaments connect the spleen to the stomach and left kidney.
What are the gastrosplenic and splenorenal ligaments?
Which anatomical structure does this nerve pass through and emerge at the superficial inguinal ring?
What is the inguinal canal?
Through which anatomical structure does this ligament exit the abdominal cavity?
What is the deep inguinal ring?
What two bony landmarks does this structure connect?
What are the ASIS and pubic tubercle?
If the inferior mesenteric artery (IMA) is occluded, which arteries provide collateral circulation to the descending colon?
What are the middle colic artery (SMA), and superior rectal artery (IMA branch)?
What function does this structure serve in digestion?
What is regulating gastric emptying into the duodenum?
This nerve, originating from L2-L4, passes medial to the psoas major.
What is the obturator nerve?
What are the three parts of this ligament?
What are the mesometrium, mesosalpinx, and mesovarium?