It is continuous with the peritoneum which lines the hepatorenal pouch and through the epiploic foramen the lesser.
Abdominal gutters vs pouches.
The two paracolic gutters and the two paramesenteric gutters there are other smaller recesses including those around the duodenojejunal flexure cecum and the sigmoid colon.
There are two paracolic gutters.
The right lateral paracolic gutter.
The peritoneal cavity is a potential space between the parietal and visceral peritoneum.
Result in formation of gutters recesses pouches.
Peritoneal spaces are separate compartments within the peritoneal cavity.
Paracolic gutters help keep infectious material away from the body s internal organs.
The right lateral gutter is much larger and allows for greater drainage than the left gutter.
The term refers mainly to four spaces in the abdominal cavity.
Both paracolic gutters run laterally along the back side of the abdominal wall and are situated between the abdominal wall and the outer margin of the colon.
Left paracolic gutter lateral to descending colon 2.
Gross anatomy these spaces are separated or compartmentalized by various peritoneal ligaments and their attachments.
The peritoneal cavity can be divided into the follo.
It normally contains only a thin film of peritoneal fluid which consists of water electrolytes leukocytes and antibodies.
Hepatorenal recess morison s pouch b rectovesical pouch in males or.
The left medial paracolic gutter.
Peritoneal recesses or peritoneal gutters are the spaces formed by peritoneum draping over viscera.
The paracolic gutters paracolic sulci paracolic recesses are spaces between the colon and the abdominal wall structure.