THE PERITOXECM. 



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Turning to the right side and above, we have seen the right part of 

 the coronary and lateral ligament descending in two layers from the dia- 

 phragm. 



Below the liver, the peritoneum passes to the stomach and duodenum as the 

 liy. hepato-f/astricum and lig. kepato-duodenale, both of which make the lesser 

 omentum of two layers. A part of the right edge of this omentum passes to the 

 hepatic flexure of the colon, called lig. hepato-colicum. The peritoneum from the 

 neck of the gall-bladder to the duodenum is the lig. cystico-duodenale. Behind 

 the foramen of Winslow and beneath the neck of the gall-bladder another thin 

 layer passes to the right kidney, lig. hepato-renale (Fig. 615). Farther down the 



Siffmoid flexure 

 FIG. 613. Mesentery. Small intestines pushed to the right and above. (Tillaux.) 



peritoneum from the posterior abdominal wall, continuous with the hepato-colic 

 ligament, covers about two-thirds of the ascending colon as on the left side, 

 making no mesocolon, and covers the whole of the caecum, making no meso- 

 coecurn. because the layers have fused into a close-fitting pocket with no attach- 

 ments except above. This, as the mesentery proper, forms a little mesentery 

 for the appendix (mesenteriolum) and descends into the pelvis. 



Mesentery. When the peritoneum on the vertebral column reaches the ante- 



