ABDOMINAL CAVITY 



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left side passing behind the aorta on their way to their 

 terminations. 



Vena Cava Inferior. The inferior vena cava is the large 

 vein which collects, by means of its tributaries, the venous 

 blood from the lower limbs, the abdominal viscera, and a 



Superior vena cava 



D 



Left atrium 



Fossa ovalis 



Valve of inferior 



vena cava 



toth thoracic vertebra 

 Inferior vena cava 



Transverse process of 



nth thoracic vertebra 



Right crus of 



diaphragm 



Epiploic foramen 



Left renal vein 

 Right renal artery 



2nd lumbar vertebra 



Lumbar artery and 

 vein 



Inferior vena cava 



5th lumbar vertebra- 



ist sacral vertebra 



4th costal cartilage 



Right coronary artery 



5th costal cartilage 



D 



Right atrio-ventricular orifice 



Orifice of coronary sinus 



Right ventricle 



Right lung 



3th costal cartilage 



" Right hepatic vein 

 Liver 

 Right branch of portal veir 



-Bile duct 



Junction of superior and de- 

 scending parts of duodenum 

 'Transverse colon 

 Bile duct 

 'Pancreas 



Inferior part of duodenur 



-Left common iliac vein 

 Right common iliac artery 



Right common iliac vein 



FIG. 185. 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, Plan of Section shown in Fig. 21. 



Note that the foramen epiploicum lies between the inferior vena cava, which is behind 

 it, and the portal vein, which is in front of it. 



great part of the abdominal parietes. It is formed by the 

 union of the two common iliac veins,, to the right of the median 

 plane in front of the fifth lumbar vertebra and behind the 

 right common iliac artery (Fig. 185). As it ascends it lies 

 at first at the right side of the aorta, in front of the bodies 

 of the vertebrae and the medial part of the right psoas 

 major, but it is separated from the vertebral bodies by the 



