Volume 3

Hand atlas of human anatomy / by Werner Spalteholz ; edited and translated from the fourth German edition by Lewellys F. Barker.

  • Spalteholz, Werner, 1861-1940.
Date:
[1906?]
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Credit: Hand atlas of human anatomy / by Werner Spalteholz ; edited and translated from the fourth German edition by Lewellys F. Barker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Diaphragma Foramen epiploicum \ [Winslowi] \ i Lobus hepatis dexter ' Vesica fellea Flexura coli sinistra Colon ascendens Flexura coli dextra Ligamentum gastrocolicum Pars inferior duodeni Piadix mesenterii ; Flexura duodenojejunalis Ligamentum phrenicocolicum I I Colon descendens ! 'Pecessus inferior omentalis 'Line of section of the omentum majus Ligamentum falciforme hepatis omentum minus .Ligamentum hepatoduodenale 1 / Ligamentum hepatogastricum I / Anterior surface of the lobus caudatus / i hepatis showing through ' /Pars abdominalis oesophagi Ligamentum gastrolienale '■ Ventriculus I Lien (margo anterior) 592. Lesser omentum (omentum minus), viewed from in front. (The left lobe of the liver has been completely removed, the colon transversiim in largest part; the stomach has been drawn somewhat downward, the spleen somewhat to the left.) Course of the peritoneum (continued). Hanging downward from the curvatura major of the stomach like an apron in front of the colon transversiim and in front of the small intestine for a variable distance (see Fig. 588) and ending below in a jagged margin is the great omentum, omentum majus. This broad peritoneal appendage is for the most part thin and transparent, but often contains large accumulations of fat along the vessels. In youth it consists of four layers (see also Fig. 598); the two anterior proceed at the curvatura ventriculi major directly from the tunica serosa of the paries anterior et posterior ventriculi; the two posterior are continued at the taenia omentalis of the colon transversiim into the tunica serosa of this portion of the intestine and into the mesocolon transversiim; at the free margin the two outer layers and the two inner layers go directly over into one another. In the embryonal period (see Fig. 598) the two posterior layers extend above the colon transversiim as far as the posterior abdominal wall; later however the mesocolon transversiim and its intestine come into contact from below with this portion of the great omentum and fuse with it. The recessus inferior omentalis (see p. 543) extends originally into the great omentum as far as its free margin, but vanishes in youth or later often more or less completely owing to a fusion of the two middle layers of peritoneiim bounding this space. When this fusion has advanced as far as the colon transversurn (which happens earlier on the right side than on the left), the two anterior layers of the great omentum extend from the curvatura ventriculi major wholly or partly directly to the colon transversurn and form a Urjamentum gastrocolicum. On the left side the two anterior layers go over directly into the ligamentum gastrolienale (see p. 541) and are connected with the ligamentum phrenicocolicum (see p. 536).