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What is the abdominopelvic cavity between? - Answer thoracic diaphragm and pelvic
diaphragm
What is the purpose of the dynamic, multilayered, musculo-aponeurotic abdominal
walls? - Answer - Contract to increase intra-abdominal pressure
- Capable of distending considerably, accommodating expansions caused by:
Ingestion, Pregnancy, Fat deposition, Pathology
Abdominal Ascites - Answer Increase in fluid within the peritoneal cavity causing
abdominal distension.
What is the most common cause of abdominal ascites? - Answer liver disease
What two planes divided the abdominal cavity into four quadrants? - Answer transverse
transumbilical plane and the vertical median plane
What is in the right upper quadrant? - Answer liver, gallbladder, duodenum, head of
pancreas, right kidney and adrenal, hepatic flexure of colon, part of ascending and
transverse colon
What is in the right lower quadrant? - Answer cecum, appendix, right ovary and tube,
right ureter, right spermatic cord
What is in the lower left quadrant? - Answer descending/sigmoid colon
left ovary/duct
left ureter
left spermatic cord
What is in the upper left quadrant? - Answer Liver, stomach, pancreas, left kidney,
spleen, and the left adrenal gland
What direction do the fibers of external oblique run? - Answer inferomedially
What two muscles work digastically in the abdomen? - Answer external and internal
oblique
Where do the fibers of external and internal oblique decussate? - Answer linea alba
What actions do the external and internal oblique digastrically in? - Answer the right
external oblique and left internal oblique work together when flexing and rotating to
, bring the right shoulder toward the left hip (torsional movement of trunk)
What direction do the fibers of internal oblique run? - Answer superomedially
What is the innermost of the three flat abdominal muscles? - Answer transverse
abdominis
What direction do the fibers of transverse abdominis run? - Answer horizontal
What is the transverse abdominis oriented the best to accomplish? - Answer
compressing the abdomen
What are the characteristics of the linea alba and the rectus sheath? - Answer - Runs
vertically the length of the anterior abdominal wall
- Separates the bilateral rectus sheaths
What are the characteristics of the rectus abdominis and the rectus sheath? - Answer -
The rectus muscle is anchored transversely by attachment to the anterior layer of the
rectus sheath at three or more tendinous intersections
What is the function of the anterolateral abdominal wall? - Answer -support the
abdominal viscera and protect them from most injuries.
- compress the abdominal contents to maintain or increase the intra-abdominal
pressure and oppose the diaphragm - facilitates expulsion
- move the trunk and help to maintain posture
What oblique and transverse muscles do acting together bilaterally? - Answer increases
intra-abdominal pressure
What does increased intra-abdominal pressure help to expel air during respiration and
more forcibly for? - Answer - Coughing
- Sneezing
- Nose blowing
- Voluntary eructation (burping)
- Yelling or screaming
Increased intra-abdominal pressure produces the force required for what? - Answer -
Defecation (discharge of feces)
- Micturition (urination)
- Vomiting
- Parturition (childbirth)
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