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3. Compare the embryo in abdominal structure on week 4 and week 5.
4. Define the organization of the foregut, midgut, and hindgut. Give the derivatives of these regions.
5. What is dorsal mesentery? What are derivatives of the dorsal mesentery?
6. What is ventral mesentery? What are derivatives of the ventral mesentery?
7. What is Meckel's Diverticulum? Why is it of importance?
8. Discuss what happens to the gastrointestinal tract at 5 weeks of embryonic age.
9. Discuss the structure of the gastrointestinal tract at 10 weeks of fetal age.
10. What structures become retroperitoneal?
11. What structures remain intraperitoneal?
12. Discuss the rotation of the stomach'.
13. Discuss the embryology of the pancreas?
14. What is: mesentery, omentum, mesocolon, greater omentum, lesser omentum, lesser sac, greater sac, Epiploic Foramen of Winslow.
15. What is the gastrolienal ligament?
16. What is the lienorenal ligament?
17. What is the gastrocolic ligament?
18. What is the superior recess of the lesser sac?
19. What is the upper recess of the lesser sac?
20. What is Hirschsprung's Disease (primary megacolon)?
21. Watch the embryology movie - available at the Reference Desk.