Statistics for Abdominal wall

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
What vertebral level does umbilicus normally sit at?	L3	75%
Whereas in women what ligament can be found to pass through it?	Round	75%
What is the name of the tendon formed by the confluence of internal oblique and transversus abdominis?	Conjoint tendon	50%
Top middle?	Epigastrium	50%
Which muscle is being described? It arises from the lower eight ribs, its fibres general direction is downwards and forwards. At the ASIS it becomes aponeirotic and continues with its lower border inrolled as the inguinal ligament to insert into the pubercle.	External oblique	50%
What is being described? The abnormal protrusion of a tissue through an opening?	Hernia	50%
What vertebral level is the transpyloric plain?	L1	50%
What is the line that run downs the midline of the abdomen, splitting the two bellies of rectus abdominis?	Linea alba	50%
What is the name of the aponeurosis that is formed when all the muscles come anterior to the rectus abdominis?	Rectus sheath	50%
The abdominal wall for anatomical and medical purposes is normally split into 9 segements, what is the name of the top right one?	Right hypochondrium?	50%
In men only what structure can be found passing through the inguinal canal?	Spermatic cord	50%
Bottom middle	Suprapubic	50%
The central one?	Umbilical	50%
Which costal cartilages does rectus abdominis insert into?	5-7	25%
Lymph below the umbilicus drains to the superficial inguinal nodes, but where does lymph above it drain?	Axillary nodes	25%
Bottom left?	Left iliac fossa	25%
Right middle?	Right lumbar	25%