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APPLIED ANATOMY. 



encountered in operating for appendicitis and is often found in a hernia. The gall- 

 bladder is almost the only organ below the liver and stomach which it is not liable to 

 Not infrequently the omentum is not found spread out, but from the move- 



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ments of the intestines it may lie between their coils or be displaced largely to the 

 left. The transverse colon passes upward and to the left ; it crosses the median line 

 just below the stomach and may reach as low as the umbilicus. Not infrequently, 

 however, there may be a coil of small intestine between the level of the umbilicus 



and in the left the termination of the descending colon 



and the transverse colon, or a coil may even push the transverse mesocolon in front 

 of it and show itself between the stomach above and the transverse colon below. 



The ccecum and the commencement of the ascending colon are almost always 

 seen superficially in the right iliac fossa. The lower end of the caecum may reach 

 as far forward as the middle of the inguinal (Poupart's) ligament, but when the 

 ascerfding colon reaches the upper edge of the iliac crest it sinks backward out of 



