left upper quadrant

(noun)

The left upper quadrant is the location of the left portion of the liver, the larger portion of the stomach, the pancreas, left kidney, spleen, portions of the transverse and descending colon, and parts of the small intestine.

Related Terms

Examples of left upper quadrant in the following topics:

  • Abdominopelvic Regions

    • The abdominopelvic region can be divided into four quadrants.
    • The right upper quadrant contains the right portion of the liver, the gallbladder, right kidney, a small portion of the stomach, the duodenum, the head of the pancreas, portions of the ascending and transverse colon, and parts of small intestine.
    • The left upper quadrant is the location of the left portion of the liver, part of the stomach, the pancreas, left kidney, spleen, portions of the transverse and descending colon, and parts of the small intestine.
    • The left lower quadrant houses the majority of the small intestine, some of the large intestine, the left half of the female reproductive system, and the left ureter.
    • The left lumbar region consists of the descending colon, the left kidney, and part of the spleen.

  • Spleen

    • The spleen is located in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen.

  • Location, location, location

    • In figure 4.5, we've used the "drag and drop" method ("grab" a node with the cursor, and drag it to a new location) to relocate the nodes so that organizations that share the same combinations of attributes are located in different quadrants of the graph.
    • If the hypothesis were strongly supported (and its not) most of the arrows would be located within each the four quadrants, and there would be few arrows between quadrants.
    • Notice that there is a cluster of nodes at the left (News, Indu, Comm) that are all pretty much not welfare organizations themselves, while the nodes at the right are (generally) more directly involved in welfare service provision.
    • The upper left-hand quadrant contains mostly "blue" nodes, while the lower right quadrant contains mostly "red" ones -- so one "direction" might be interpreted as "non-government/government. "

  • The Cartesian System

    • On the x-axis, numbers increase toward the right and decrease toward the left.
    • The point $(-3,1)$ is found by moving three units to the left of the origin and one unit up from it.  
    • The Cartesian coordinate system is broken into four quadrants by the two axes; labeled, I, II, III, and IV, starting from the upper right and continuing counter-clockwise as pictured below.
    • Point $(4,0)$ is on the x-axis and not in a quadrant.  
    • The four quadrants of a Cartesian coordinate system.

  • Special Angles

    • Reference angles in quadrant 1 are used to identify which value any angle in quadrants 2, 3, or 4 will take.
    • For any given angle in the first quadrant, there is an angle in the second quadrant with the same sine value.
    • As we can see from the diagrams below, for any angle in quadrants II, III, or IV, there is a reference angle in quadrant I.
    • In the left figure, $t$ is the reference angle for $\alpha$.
    • For any angle in quadrants II, III, or IV, there is a reference angle in quadrant I.

  • Anatomy of the Liver and Gallbladder

    • It is located in the right upper quadrant of the abdominal cavity, resting just below the diaphragm.
    • Traditionally, the liver is divided into four lobes: left, right, caudate, and quadrate.

  • Company Capabilities

    • These "advantage capabilities" are shown in the upper right.
    • In the top left quadrant, strategic support capabilities have high contribution in direct support of advantage capabilities.
    • These "advantage capabilities" are shown in the upper right.

  • Properties of Indifference Curves

    • Indifference curves only reside in the non-negative quadrant of a two-dimensional graphical illustration (or the upper right).
    • Nearly all indifference lines will be convex, or curving inwards at the center (towards the bottom left).

  • Settling the Colonial South and the Chesapeake

    • The council generally consisted of 12 upper class residents of their colony.
    • Bacon's Rebellion showed how much influence the people could exert over their government when they disagreed with what the upper class in the government decided.
    • These slaves left a lasting impact upon southern agricultural techniques as well as social aspects of southern society.
    • Heading south along the Delaware River Philadelphia is identified and beautifully rendered as a grid embraced in four quadrants.
    • The lower right quadrant of this map is occupied by a fabulous decorative title cartouche.

  • Issues with the Traditional Political Spectrum

    • Researchers have frequently noted that a single left-right axis is insufficient to describe the existing variation in political beliefs.
    • Researchers have frequently noted that a single left-right axis is insufficient in describing the existing variation in political beliefs, and often include other axes.
    • In this context, the contemporary American on the left is often considered individualist (or libertarian ) on social/cultural issues and communitarian (or populist) on economic issues, while the contemporary American on the right is often considered communitarian (or populist) on social/cultural issues and individualist (or libertarian) on economic issues.
    • Numerous alternatives exist, usually developed by those who feel their views are not fairly represented on the traditional right-left spectrum.
    • This puts left-wingers in the left quadrant, libertarians in the top, right-wingers in the right, and what Nolan originally named "populists" at the bottom.