Abdomen: practice question

The best answer is A, Falciform ligament. The falciform ligament is a peritoneal fold that attaches the liver to the anterior abdominal wall and diaphragm and contains the ligamentum teres.

Round ligament of femur attaches near the femoral head, not the liver.

Cruciate ligaments stabilize the knee joint.

Inguinal ligament extends from the anterior superior iliac spine to pubic tubercle.

It tests Abdomen in Anatomy. The correct option holds because: Correct: falciform ligament anchors the liver anteriorly.

We tag it as an application question: it asks you to use a fact on a patient or a finding. The tag is our own editorial judgement, not an official difficulty rating, so read the reason for every option, not only the answer.

Learn every nerve by its route, its muscles and what a lesion looks like at the bedside. That one habit answers a large share of questions. Then use the flashcards and the other Anatomy questions on this site to test what stuck.

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