nu: cm. ANS or TIM: r 



[anterior] part, which contain-* tin- >tomach, liver, duodenum, 

 niul pancreas, and a lower part, holding tin- small inh->i inc. 



Thus embnoloify explains the .-trikin:,' condition of tin- duodenum, 

 which, in order to pass from (lie upper to the lower space and to 

 me continuou> wit li the small inteM ine. pa e> underneat h ! l..r>al 

 to] the transversely out>t retch. -d m.-orol, ,1, (!i<_ r -. !'''" ami 1)7 ///). 



Al>> in th- case of the suspensorium of the cuu -urn, ami of tl,.- 

 as.-. 'inline ami d< scending arms of the colon, there occurs a more or 

 le extensive i oiictv.M-ence with the peritoneum of the wall of 

 trunk. Therefore in tin- adult the parts of tin- intestine, li 

 sometimes lie with their posterior wall hroadlv in contact with the 

 lody-wa!l; -oinetimes they are supported ly a broad*",- or narrower 

 mo. ntery. 



There still remain to be described the impoitant changes of the 

 l-ni'xn onn Ufa/fa, the development of which during the first months of 

 embryonic life we have already (p. 299) become acquainted with. 

 The hursiv is distinguished, HIM. by a very considerable growth, 

 and, secondly, by the fact that it fuses with neighboring organs at 

 various places. In the beginning it rearho only to the <:i> 

 curvature of the stomach (figs. 165, 166), to which it i> atta 

 but even from the third month onward it enlarges and la\> it>elf over 

 [ventral to] the viscera which lie below the stomach, at first ovei 

 tran>veise colon (fig. 167 A gn l , gn~), then over the whole of the 

 small intestine (fig. 167 A yri*). The bursa consists, as far as it has 

 extended downv.ards, of two lamella?, which lie close to each other, 

 separated by only a very narrow .-space, and are continuous at their 

 lower margin. < )f these the more superficial, the one which i> in 

 to the ventral wall of the belly, is attached to the greater curvature 

 of the stomach (tjc)\ the posterior [dorsal] lamella, which lies upon 

 the intestine>. is originally attached to the vertebral column and here 

 ctic!-e> the main part of the pancre8(fig8. l'i~ A p and 166^?). In 

 the case of many Mammals (Dog) the bursa omentali- remains in 

 this condition. In Man it le^in> a> early as the fourth month 

 to undergo fusions (fig. 167 B ). On the left side of the body the 

 pL.Merior lamella repo-e- on the poMerior wall of the Ixdy over a 

 large extent of surface, and fuses with it i -hat its line of 



attachment to the vertebral column nm\- 1 up ;> the origin 



of the diaphragm (li:. phivnico-lienalei. Ktrth. r down it glides over 

 the upper [anterior] surface of the 0*0) an. I over the 



transverse colon (ct) ; it becomes fu>ed with hoth of them, with the 

 former as early a> the fourth embryonic month. At the time of 



