The layer of tissue just deep to the skin of the abdominal wall.
What is Camper's fascia?
A disease due to a deficiency in uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase?
Porphyria cutanea tarda (most common type)
The region of the stomach containing shallow gastric pits occupying the superficial 1/4th or less of the mucosa.
what is the fundic region?
This would eliminate the cephalic phase of acid secretion in the stomach.
a vagotomy
The boundaries of Winslow's Foramen
caudate lobe of liver (superior)
first part of duodenum (inferior)
free edge of lesser omentum (anterior)
IVC (posterior)
A derivate of the external oblique aponeurosis attached from the ASIS to the pubic tubercle
What is the inguinal ligament?
This compound is administered to treat anemia caused by a deficiency in UMP synthase.
What is uridine?
The plexus of autonomic nerves found in the submucosa of the digestive tube.
What is the Meissner plexus?
BONUS: Where is the myenteric (Auerbach) nerve plexus found?
The preganglionic parasympathetic fibers that travel to submandibular ganglia.
What is CN VII (facial)?
BONUS: What do the postganglionic fibers reach?
The 3 proximal branches of the celiac trunk.
left gastric a.
common hepatic a.
splenic a.
The layer of tissue that forms the deep inguinal ring.
What is the transversalis fascia?
Low levels of this enzyme leads to an increased concentration of of sorbitol in the lens causing premature cataracts.
What is NAD+-sorbitol dehydrogenase?
The portion of the GIT where peyer's patches are found.
What is the ileum?
The periodic gastric contractions, during fasting, mediated by motilin.
What is the migrating myoelectric complex?
Increased pain on medial rotation of thigh due to stretching of obturator internus.
What is pelvic appendicitis?
The structures that lie anterior to the third part of the duodenum.
What are the root of the mesentery and the superior mesenteric vessels?
The aromatic acids given to help lower hyperammonemia.
What are benzoate and phenylbutyrate>
The structure that isn't found in the appendix, but is found in the rest of the colon.
What is Taenia coli?
The cells that sense the food bolus in the intestinal lumen and release serotonin.
What are enterochromaffin (EC) cells?
BONUS: What does 5-HT release stimulate?
The vessels that enlarge during portal hypertension to produce internal hemorrhoids
submucosal anastomosis between superior rectal v. (portal system) and middle and inferior rectal v. (vena caval system)
The perioteneal fold separating the urinary bladder from the uterus.
What is the uterovesical fold?
A chemotherapeutic agent that inhibits the reduction of dihydrofolate to tetrahydrofolate?
What is methotrexate?
BONUS: what is the name of the enzyme it inhibits?
The cells lining the bile ductules in the portal areas that are a common site of carcinoma.
What are the cholangiocytes (either cuboidal or columnar)?
Bonus: What is the path of bile in the biliary tree?
The protein secreted by parietal cells that bind vitamin-B12.
What is intrinsic factor?
BONUS: A deficiency in B12 leads to what?
What is the body of the pancreas?