Right upper quadrant

(noun)

The right upper quadrant contains the right portion of the liver, gallbladder, right kidney, a small portion of the stomach, portions of the ascending and transverse colon, and parts of the small intestine.

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Examples of Right 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.
    • In the right lower quadrant sits the cecum, appendix, part of the small intestines, the right half of the female reproductive system, and the right ureter.
    • The right iliac region contains the appendix, cecum, and the right iliac fossa.

  • Anatomy of the Liver and Gallbladder

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

  • Pylorospasm and Pyloric Stenosis

    • This hypertrophy is felt classically as an olive-shaped mass in the middle upper part or right upper quadrant of the infant's abdomen.

  • The Cartesian System

    • On the x-axis, numbers increase toward the right and decrease toward the left.
    • To plot the point $(2,3)$, start at the origin and move three units to the right and five units 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.

  • 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. "
    • There is no one "right way" to use space in a graph.

  • Properties of Indifference Curves

    • Indifference curves only reside in the non-negative quadrant of a two-dimensional graphical illustration (or the upper right).

  • 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 right figure, $t$ is the reference angle for $\beta$.
    • For any angle in quadrants II, III, or IV, there is a reference angle in quadrant I.

  • 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.
    • Other capabilities shown in the bottom right are essential.
    • These "advantage capabilities" are shown in the upper right.

  • 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.
    • Further north Lake Erie and been expanded dramatically and shifted somewhat to the south where it takes on the appearance of a vast inland sea occupying the entire northwestern quadrant of the map.
    • 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.

  • Defining Trigonometric Functions on the Unit Circle

    • We have already defined the trigonometric functions in terms of right triangles.
    • The x- and y-axes divide the coordinate plane (and the unit circle, since it is centered at the origin) into four quarters called quadrants.
    • We label these quadrants to mimic the direction a positive angle would sweep.
    • The four quadrants are labeled I, II, III, and IV.
    • We have previously discussed trigonometric functions as they apply to right triangles.