ABDOMINAL CAVITY 



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with the great sac through the epiploic foramen. Above the 

 epiploic foramen the right margin of the omental bursa is 

 formed, in the upper recess, by the reflection of the peritoneum 

 from the right border of the caudate lobe of the liver to the 

 right crus of the diaphragm. The hepatic artery turns round 



Superior vena cava 



D 



Left atrium 



Fossa ovalis 



Valve of inferior 



vena cava 



i tli thoracic vertebra 

 Inferior vena cava 



Transverse process of. 



nth thoracic vertebra 



Right crus of 



diaphragm 



Kpiploic foramen 





Left renal vein 

 Right renal artery 



nil lumbar vertebn 

 I -iimliar artery ant 



veil 



In r erior vena cava 



5th lumbar vertebrr 

 ist sacral vertebn 



4th costal cartilage 

 a Right coronary artery 

 5th costal cartilage 

 D. 



Right atrio-ventricular orifice 

 Orifice of coronary sinus 

 Right ventricle 

 Right lung 

 8th costal cartilage 



"Right hepatic vein 

 -Liver 

 Right branch of portal vein 



-Bile duct 



Junction of superior and de- 

 scending parts of duodenum 



ransverse colon 

 Bile duct 

 Pancreas 



Inferior part of duodenum 



common iliac vein 

 Right common iliac artery 



Right common iliac vein 



FIG. 133. Sagittal section of the upper part of the Abdomen and the 

 lower part of the Thorax of a Young Male Adult along the line of the 

 Inferior Vena Cava. 



D-D ; Plane of Section shown in Fig. 21. 



.Vote, that in this subject the lower part of the heart was behind the jth 

 costal cartilage. 



the right border of the bursa immediately behind the upper 

 border of the first part of the duodenum, producing the 

 right gastro-pancreatic fold previously mentioned. 



The Great Sac of the Peritoneum. After the dissector 

 has made himself thoroughly conversant with the cavity of 

 the omental bursa he should study the cavity of the great sac. 

 It is the cavity into which he opened when he cut through 



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