Selected monographs.

Date:: 1888

Credit: Selected monographs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$tlie vertical poi'tion of the duodenum and the vena cava in- fei'io)-. On tlie left side the anterior surface of the kidney is covered in its npper third by the spleen, and in its lower two-thirds by the descending colon or splenic flexure of the colon (flexura coli sinistra). Its inner border abuts on the extremity of the cardiac end of the stomach. Part of it lies beneath the pancreas, which is indented by it and the renal vessels. Fig. I {after Sappey). 20 ^2 19 1. Superior horizontal limb of the duodenum turned to the right side with the pyloric end of the stomach. 2. Vertical limb of the duodenum. 3. Inferior horizontal limb of the duodenum, bounded on the left by the superior mesenteric artei-y and vein. 4. 4. Head of the pancreas. .1;. Body of the pancreas. 6. Tail of the pancreas. 7. 7. Its main duct. 8. Accessory duct. q. Left lobe of the liver. 10, II. Right lobe of the liver. 12. Lobus Spigelii. 13. Obliterated umbilical vein. 14. Giill-bhiddcr. 15. Hepatic duct. 16. Cystic duct. 17. Common bile-duct, opening, to- gether with the pancreatic duct, into the Ampulla Vateri (common gall and pancreatic duct) and the duodenum. 18. Portal vein, covered on the right by the common bile-duct, and on the left by the hepatic artery. 19. Cocliac a.\is. 20. Hepatic artery. 21. Coronary artery of the stomach. 22. Cardiac end of the stomach. 23. Splenic artery. 24. Spleen. 25. Left kidney. 26. Right kidney. 27. Inferior mesenteric artery and vein. 28. Vena cava inferior.$

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