The Anatomy of the Human Peritoneum and Abdominal Cavity / Considered from the Standpoint of Development and Comparative Anatomy

by George S. Huntington

[7] It should be remembered that in the final adult arrangement of the abdominal viscera the liver shifts relatively backwards, so that the diaphragmatic attachment, originally directed cephalad, now looks dorsad and forms part of the dorsal or “posterior” surface of the adult organ. The original ventral surface looks cephalad, as well as ventrad, forming the convex surface which in the adult rests in contact with the abdominal wall and diaphragmatic vault, while the surface originally directed dorsad toward the stomach finally in large part has an inclination caudad forming the “inferior” surface of human anatomy.

[8] Flower and Lyddecker, “Mammals, Living and Extinct,” p. 209.

[9] A. v. Haller, Elements physiologiæ, Tom. 7, Liber 24, Sect. 3.

[10] Fr. Arnold, Handbuch der Anat. d. Menschen. 1847. II. Bd., cloth, p. 84.

[11] E. Zuckerkandl, “Ueber die Obliteration des Darmfortsatzes beim Menschen.” Anat. Hefte XI. (Bd. IV., Heft 1), 1894, p. 107.

[12] N. Y. Med. Journal, Vol. LXIX., No. 14, p. 508.

[13] Cf. Quain.