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7-24 ant abdominal
Question | Answer |
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What muscles form the rectus sheath? | Obliques |
What muscle works against lordosis? | Rectus abdominis |
What artery is found deep to the ribs? | Internal thoracic artery |
What arteries are branches of the internal thoracic artery? | Musculophrenic and superior epigastric arteries |
What artery is a branch of the external iliac artery? | Inferior epigastric artery |
What artery is a branch of the femoral artery? | Superficial epigastric artery |
What arteries are deep to the rectus abdominis? | Superior and inferior epigastric arteries |
What did the medial fold used to contain? | Umbilical artery |
What fold doesn't contribute to the belly button? | Lateral fold |
What vessels does the lateral fold contain? | Inferior epigastric artery and vein |
What forms the medial border of the inguinal triangle? | Rectus abdominis |
What forms the lateral border of the inguinal triangle? | Inferior epigastric artery/vien |
What forms the inferior border of the inguinal triangle? | Inguinal ligament |
Why are hernias common in the inguinal triangle? | There's only transversalis fascia |
What is formed by the external oblique aponeurosis? | Inguinal ligament |
What muscle pulls the testes up and what is the reflex called? | Cremaster; cremasteric reflex |
In males and females respectively what goes through the inguinal canal? | Males- spermatic cord Females- round ligament of uterus |
What drains urine out of the bladder in utero and which fold is it found in? | Urachus; median fold |
How do structures go from the abdominal cavity to the inguinal canal? | Deep inguinal ring |
What artery and vein goes through the inguinal canal? | Testicular artery and vein |
Where do males usually get hernias? | Inguinal |
Where do females usually get hernias? | Femoral |
What nerve runs with the spermatic cord? | Ilioinguinal nerve |
Where is the inguinal canal found? | Between the deep and superficial inguinal rings |
What fascia is an extension of the external abdominal oblique aponeurosis? | External spermatic fascia |
What aids in the descent of the testes? | Gubernaculum |
What covers the epididymis and testes? | Visceral tunica vaginalis |
What lines the internal spermatic fascia? | Parietal tunica vaginalis |
What is the pampiniform venous plexus used for? | Thermal regulation |
Why do the veins create a plexus in the testes? | Arteries give off heat for the veins to bring back to keep the testes cool |
What do the seminiferous tubules do? | Make sperm |
What connects the seminiferous tubules wit the epididymis? | Rete testis |
Characteristics of direct inguinal hernias | Medial to epigastric vessels; superficial ring; |
Characteristics of indirect inguinal hernias | Lateral to epigastric vessels; both rings; damages spermatic cord |