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

 a UK mliraiioiis fold which has been describe'! as u dependency of the serous 

 niemliriine ; a /r.-wr 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 framum known as the hepato-gastric ligament ; 4, A left ex- 

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

 tin !>/'/ cnl-di'-sac (or fundus) of the stomach ; 5, A riyht './//,/////, narrower, 

 curvetl 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. 



Rt'liitii'Uii. Studied in its connections with the neighbouring organs, the 

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



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A, Cardiac extremity ! tin- -i-sophagus; B, Pyloric ring. 



its posterior face, with the diaphragmatic curvature of the colon. 1 

 interior border, margined to the left l>y the spleen, which is suspended iV.nii 

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

 wall by the large anterior curvatures of the colon; its distant -e from this 

 all depends upon the fulness of the organ. The left eitromity, suspendt d 

 to tin- Kiibliimbar region by the aid of a very short serous ligament, a portion 

 i-f the great omentum, responds to the base .t the >|>leen. tin 1 1't - \tivmity 

 i the pancreas and, loss directly, t tin- ant ri<>r border of tin 1. it UM 



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