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Body Cavities
Body Cavities and the organs within
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Anatomy
Undergraduate 1
01/29/2011

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Term
CRANIAL CAVITY
Definition
BRAIN
Term

VERTEBRAL CANAL

SPINAL CAVITY

Definition

SPINAL CORD

VERTEBRAE

Term
THORACIC CAVITY
Definition

LUNGS

MEDIASTINUM (REGIONS BETWEEN THE LUNGS THAT SEPARATES THE THORAX INTO TWO COMPARTMENTS THAT CONTAIN THE RIGHT AND LEFT LUNGS, THE REMAINING THORACIC VISCERA - HEART, ESOPHAGUS, TRACHEA, AND THYMUS

LEFT PLEURAL CAVITY, RIGHT PLEURAL CAVITY, AND PERICARDIAL CAVITY - CAVITIES WITHIN THORACIC CAVITY

Term
ABDOMINOPELVIC CAVITY
Definition

INCLUDES ABDOMINAL CAVITY AND PELVIC CAVITY 

ORGANS IN THESE TWO CAVITIES ARE CALLED VISCERA

 

THIN MUSCLE CALLED THE DIAPHRAGM SEPARATES THE THORACIC CAVITY FROM THE ABDOMINAL CAVITY

 

 

Term
ABDOMINAL CAVITY
Definition

ORGANS CALLED VISCERA

 

1) STOMACH

2) LIVER

3) SPLEEN

4) GALLBLADDER

5) SMALL INTESTINES

6) LARGE INTESTINES

Term
PELVIC CAVITY
Definition

ORGANS CALLED VISCERA

1) Terminal end of large intestine

2) Urinary bladder

3) Internal reproductive organs

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