THE STOMACH. 



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organ, and giving attachment, throughout its extent, to the great omentum 

 a membranous fold which has been described as a dependency of the serous 

 membrane ; a lesser or concave curvature, into which the oesophagus is 

 inserted, and which is united, to the right of that canal, to the liver, by 

 means of a frsenum known as the hepato-gastric ligament ; 4, A left ex- 

 tremity , dilated in the form of a large conical tuberosity, and constituting 

 the left cul-de-sac (or fundus) of the stomach ; 5, A right extremity, narrower, 

 curved upwards, and continued by the duodenum, from which it is separated 

 by a marked constriction : this is named the right cul-de-sac of the 

 stomach. 



'Relations. Studied in its connections with the neighbouring organs, the 

 stomach is related : by its anterior face, with the diaphragm and liver ; by 



Fig. 183. 



STOMACH OF THE HORSE. 



A, Cardiac extremity of the oesophagus ; B, Pyloric ring. 



its posterior face, with the diaphragmatic curvature of the colon. Its 

 inferior border, margined to the left by the spleen, which is suspended from 

 it by means of the great omentum, is separated from the inferior abdominal 

 wall by the large anterior curvatures of the colon ; its distance from this 

 wall depends upon the fulness of the organ. The left extremity, suspended 

 to the sublumbar region by the aid of a very short serous ligament, a portion 

 of the great omentum, responds to the base of the spleen, the left extremity 

 of the pancreas and, less directly, to the anterior border of the left kidney. 



