Objective 1

 Peritneal cavity
o First opening cavity  large sheet known as greater omentum
 Can see visceral contents of cavity underneath
 abdominal cavity needs serus membrane that allows movement in viscera
o Peritoneum covers it, and viscera will grow and push into it
 Greater+lesser sac
o Lesser sac  omental bursa
 Located behind stomach
 Omental foramen  communication between greater and lesser sac
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Objective 2

 Mesentary  derived from peritoneum

o Most of viscera are attached to wall by mesentery
o Mesentary is double fold of peritoneum suspending a portion of the GI tract from the
body wall and conveying its blood + lymph supply

Objective 3

 Mesentaries and adult derivates

o Aorta dorsal to peritenal sack to peritneal sack
o Gut tube sits there
o Midgut  will twist and rotate
 Becomes suspended by sheet of mesentery
o Dorsal side  greater curvature attached to posterior wall by mesentery
 Greater omentum from dorsal mesentery
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o Forgut/midgut/hindgut  mesentariry
o Ventral mesentery only associated with forgut
o As gut tube elongates and rotates  will separate and drag its vessels behind it \
o In midgut and hindgut  no ventral mesentery
 Ony dorsal
 List of structures derive from dorsal mesontary
o Mesoesophagus
o Greater omentum
o Splenorenal ligament
o Intestinal Mesentery
 Mesentary proper or great mesentary
o Mesoappendix
 Mesontary of appendix
o Transverse mesocolon
 Suspends transverse colon
o Phrenicocolic ligament
 o Sigmoid mesocolon
o Are not associated with muscle  ligaments that connect various viscera
o Blood supply runs between folds of mesentery
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o Gastrophrenic ligament  stomach and diaphragm
 Ventral mesentery derivatives
o Lesser omentum (includes hepatogastric,
o hepatoduodenal ligaments)
o Falciform Ligament  connects liver to anterior body wall directly
o Coronary Ligaments
o Right and Left Triangular Ligaments
 Falciform ligament diveds left and right folds of ligament
 Coronary ligaments crowns the liver
o Continuous with left and right traiangular ligaments
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 Bladder up  obliterated urachous
o Median umbilical ligament  up to bladder
 Another ridge  both right and left  converges on umbilicus
 Medial umbilical

Objective 4

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o Look at diagram A
 Rotation  causes displacesment
o Gut tube  through differential growth and fusion of some of their covering  some
will loose their mesentery
 Ascending and descending mesentery
 Push up against posterior body wall
 End up behind peritneum
 Intraperitoneal  organ suspended by mesentery and covered by visceral peritoneum
 Retroperitoneal 0  organ lies deep to perineum
 Seconday retroperitoneal  Once had a mesentery but fused to posterior body wall.
o GI not associated with a mesentery
 Kidney never had a peritinium
o Posterior to peritneum
 Fusion fascia  where fusion of retroperitoneal organs to posterior body wall in which laters of
peritoneum fuse together