1.6: Abdominopelvic Regions and Abdominopelvic Quadrants
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Abdominopelvic Regions and Abdominopelvic Quadrants
The abdominopelvic region can divided into four abdominopelvic quadrants or nine abdominopelvic regions. These are very important in clinical practice.
Four abdominopelvic quadrants:
- right-upper quadrant (RUQ)
- left-upper quadrant (LUQ)
- right-lower quadrant (RLQ)
- left-lower quadrant
Nine abdominopelvic regions:
- right hypochondriac
- epigastric
- left hypochondriac
- right lumbar
- umbilical
- left lumbar
- right iliac
- hypogastric
- left iliac
Attributions
- "Anatomy and Physiology" by J. Gordon Betts et al., OpenStax is licensed under CC BY 4.0
- "Anatomy and Physiology I Lab" by Victoria Vidal is licensed under CC BY 4.0