You are a disobedient dog that just ate a canvas tote bag. Answer some questions about the surgery that will save your life, for 10 points each:
[10e] The doctor has elected to perform a gastrotomy after a pre-surgical x-ray showed that the bag passed through this structure. Food travels via peristalsis down this tube, which connects the mouth and stomach.
ANSWER: esophagus
[10h] During the surgery, the doctor must work around a recent gastropexy, in which this specific action is done to the stomach to stabilize it, often to treat gastric dilatation volvulus or bloat. A description is acceptable.
ANSWER: sewn to the abdominal wall [or sewn to the body wall; or sewn to the diaphragm; accept sutured, stitched, tacked, attached or word forms instead of “sewn;” prompt on sewn, sutured, stitched, tacked; attached, or word forms with “the stomach is sewn to what other structure?”]
[10m] You are recovering after pieces of the bag were extracted from the canal of this distal part of the stomach. Luckily, it did not pass the namesake “sphincter” at the end of this structure, which would have required extraction from the duodenum.
ANSWER: pylorus [accept pyloric canal or pyloric sphincter]
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