The Anthromica Library
The human body one structure at a time. Every page has a 3D model you can turn, with its parts numbered on it, where it sits, what it does and what supplies it.
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- Accessory pancreatic ductDuctus pancreaticus accessoriusA smaller second drainage channel of the pancreas, running through the upper head of the gland to the duodenum.
- Ascending colonColon ascendensThe first segment of the colon, climbing the right side of the abdomen from the caecum to the underside of the liver.
- Bile ductDuctus biliarisThe duct carrying bile from the junction of the hepatic and cystic ducts down to the descending duodenum.
- Descending colonColon descendensThe segment of the colon running down the left flank, from the splenic flexure as far as the pelvic brim.
- DuodenumThe opening segment of the small intestine, and its shortest, a C-shaped loop curving around the pancreatic head.
- GallbladderVesica biliarisA small pear-shaped sac on the underside of the liver that stores and concentrates bile between meals.
- Greater omentumOmentum maiusA large, fatty apron of peritoneum that hangs from the stomach's greater curvature over the front of the intestines.
- JejunumThe middle part of the small intestine, following the duodenum and leading into the ileum, coiled mainly in the upper left abdomen.
- Lesser omentumOmentum minusA thin double fold of peritoneum stretching from the underside of the liver to the stomach's lesser curvature and the duodenum.
- LiverHeparThe largest internal organ and gland, filling the upper right abdomen under the diaphragm and handling much of the body's metabolism.
- Meso-appendixMesoappendixThe small triangular fold of peritoneum that suspends the vermiform appendix from the back of the ileal mesentery.
- MesocolonThe fold of peritoneum and connective tissue that attaches the colon to the back wall of the abdomen and carries its vessels.
- Mucosa of stomachTunica mucosa gastrisThe soft, folded inner lining of the stomach, packed with the glands that make gastric acid, enzymes and protective mucus.
- PancreasA long, soft gland lying across the back of the upper abdomen, making digestive juice and blood-sugar hormones.
- Pancreatic ductDuctus pancreaticusThe main duct of the pancreas, running the whole length of the gland to empty into the descending duodenum.
- Renal pelvisPelvis renalisThe funnel-shaped upper end of the ureter, lying partly inside the renal sinus, where the major calyces unite to collect urine.
- Segments of the liverSegmenta hepatisThe eight functional segments of the liver, each with its own branch of portal vein, hepatic artery and bile duct, numbered I to VIII.
- Sigmoid colonColon sigmoideumThe S-shaped loop of colon in the pelvis that links the descending colon to the rectum.
- StomachGasterThe J-shaped, muscular widening of the gut in the upper left abdomen, linking the oesophagus with the duodenum.
- Suprarenal glandGlandula suprarenalisA small endocrine gland capping the upper pole of each kidney in the retroperitoneum, with a steroid-making cortex and an adrenaline-making medulla.
- Taeniae coliThree narrow bands of longitudinal smooth muscle running along the outside of the caecum and colon and meeting at the base of the appendix.
- Transverse colonColon transversumThe longest and most mobile segment of the colon, hanging across the abdomen from the hepatic flexure to the splenic flexure.
- UreterThe narrow muscular tube that carries urine from the renal pelvis of each kidney down the posterior abdominal wall and into the urinary bladder.
- Vermiform appendixAppendix vermiformisA narrow, blind-ended tube opening from the caecum in the right lower abdomen, rich in lymphoid tissue.