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How are the stomach and small intestine suspended within the peritoneal cavity?
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∙ 14y ago
The Lesser omentum suspends the stomach from the liver and the Small intestine are all suspended from wall by mesentery of small intestine
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What type of tissue lines the peritoneal cavity of the small intestine?
The visceral peritoneum, a serious membrane, lines the outside of the small intestine where it meets the peritoneal cavity.
What body cavities have to be entered to do a gallbladder removal?
Peritoneal cavity is to be accessed to remove the gall bladder either by open method or by laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Peritoneal cavity is the abdominal cavity in other word. The gallbladder connects the liver to the small intestine and carries bile to the food coming from the stomach.
What is the hemopeotic organ found lateral to the stomach on the left side of the peritoneal cavity?
The spleen is the hemopoeitic organ lateral to the stomach o the left side of the peritoneal cavity.
Which cavity of the body contains the stomach and the intestines?
The Small Intestine is the part of the Gastrointestinal Tract that is involved in absorption and the bulk of the digestion of food. It is contained within the Abdomen mostly in the hypogastric Region.
Do females have a peritoneal cavity?
All humans have a peritoneal cavity.
Do the kidneys lie within the peritoneal cavity?
Kidneys are retroperitoneal. There are in the abdominal cavity, but not in the peritoneal cavity.
What is the simple squamous epithelium that lines the peritoneal cavity called?
The peritoneal membrane lines the peritoneal cavity.
What cavity is the guts in?
Peritoneal cavity
Two organs of the abdominal cavity?
Stomach, spleen, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, small intestine, most of large intestine, urinary bladder.
Why can sperm enter the peritoneal cavity?
Because the female reproductive tract is continuous with the peritoneal cavity through the fallopian tubes, it is possible for sperm to enter the peritoneal cavity.
What is the term for organs that lie within the abdominal cavity but not within the peritoneal cavity?
An organ can be in the abdominopelvic cavity but not the peritoneal cavity if the organ sits below the diaphragm but outside the peritoneal membranes. The kidneys, which are behind the peritoneal membrane (retroperitoneal) are such organs.
Difference between Peritoneum and abdominal cavity?
The abdominal cavity contains most of the digestive organs whereas the peritoneal cavity is the space between the parietal and visceral layers.
