Abdominal Sections

The nine abdominal regions.
Abdominal sections. 9 regions of the abdomen envision the sections of your abdomen as a tic tac toe board. It s either a vertical incision between your navel and pubic hair left or more commonly a horizontal incision lower on your abdomen right. Abdominal sections 01 09 this video takes a look at how we divide up the abdominal.
Abdominal surgery is the most frequent cause of abdominal adhesions. Regions 1 to 3 are the top row right middle left regions 4 through 6 encompass the middle boxes and regions 7 to 9 comprise the bottom row. Other causes of abdominal adhesions include inflammation of an organ such as cholecystitis or appendicitis peritonitis foreign objects left inside the abdomen at the time of surgery bleeding into the peritoneal cavity or inflammatory conditions such as pelvic.
Swelling of the abdomen usually due to an increased amount of. To simplify this even further let s number each region of your abdomen. The rectus abdominis is the large muscle in the mid section of the abdomen.
Next to it on both sides of the body is the. In both sexes you will find the sigmoid and bottom section of the colon. Pelvic inflammation such as is found with pelvic inflammatory disease and ovarian cysts.
Specifically we look at breaking t. The nine abdominal regions divide the abdomen into even smaller sections by using two parasagittal planes that run down the middle of the clavicle bones also called midclavicular planes and two horizontal transverse planes. The liver is located in the upper right hand part of the abdominal cavity under the ribs.
A weakening or gap in the abdominal fascia allows a section of the intestine to protrude. If you have abdominal pain it is likely to come from the lower left quadrant and it could be a sign of a number of conditions including colitis ureteral colic or diverticulitis. It enables the tilt of the pelvis and the curvature of the lower spine.