1.

What is a peritoneum and difference between Parietal and Visceral

peritoneum?
Answer:
Peritoneum is a membrane, a sheet of smooth tissue that lines your
abdominopelvic cavity and surrounds your abdominal organs.
Parietal serosa line the body cavities and visceral serosa line the outer part of
the organs within the body cavity. Therefore, parietal serous membranes are
the outer membranes lining a body cavity and visceral serous membranes are
the inner membranes lining a body cavity.
2. What is Volvulus and Intussusception?
Answer:
Volvulus refers to abnormal twisting of a part of the large or small intestine.
This twisting may lead to a bowel obstruction, which can cause severe
complications.
Intussusception refers to invagination or telescoping of a part of the intestine
into itself, and malrotation volvulus is a congenital anomaly that results when
the normal sequence of rotation and fixation of the bowel fails, which may
result in intestinal obstruction.
3. Describe Biliary tree.
Answer:
Biliary tree is a system of vessels that directs these secretions from the liver,
gallbladder and pancreas through a series of ducts into the duodenum. The
exit hole into the duodenum is called the papilla of Vater.
4. Discuss Portal Circulation.
Answer:
A portal circulation is connecting veins, which are an additional network of
vessels between arterial and venous circulation. The veins between the
connected capillaries are called portal veins. The portal flow is unusual
because blood from the gastrosplenic area and the lower part of the large
intestine passes to the left half of the liver and the blood from the two
intestines to the right half, without mixing of the two streams in the portal
vein. Portal venous system drains blood from the gastrointestinal tract (apart
from the lower section of rectum), spleen, pancreas, and gallbladder to the
liver.