BIG PICTURE Thoracic Cavity Flashcards
What is the Thoracic Cavity enclosed by?
- Ribs
- Vertebral Column
- Sternum
How is the thoracic cavity separated from the abdominal cavity?
Diaphragm
What are the 6 components of the rib?
- Head
- Neck
- Tubercule
- Angle
- Costal Groove
- Body
What are the 6 parts to the sternum?
- Jugular Notch
- Clavicular Notch
- Manubrium
- Sternal Angle
- Body
- Xiphoid Process
What is the visceral pleura?
Serous membrane that covers the lung
What are the 7 muscles of the thoracic wall and where do they attach?
- Anterior Scalene m (C3-C6, transverse processes, anterior tubercles)
- Middle Scalene m (C3-C7, transverse processes, posterior tubercles)
- Posterior Scalene m (C5-C7, transverse processes, posterior tubercles)
- Pectoralis Major (clavicle, sternum, bicipital groove of humerus)
- Serratus Anterior (ribs 1-9, vertebral border of scapula)
- Subclavius (1st rib, clavicle in costoclavicular space)
- Pectoralis Minor (ribs 3-5, coracoid process of scapula)
What muscle is used in expiration?
Subcostal mm
What is each of the 7 muscles innervation?
1-3. C3-C6 spinal nerves
- Medial and lateral pectoral nerve (C5-T1)
- Long thoracic nerve
- C5-C6, subclavian nerve from brachial plexus
- Medial pectoral nerve
What is each muscles action?
1-3. Fix 1st and 2nd ribs in forceful inspiration
- Adduct and medially rotate humerus, pulls scapula anteriorly and inferiorly
- Protracts and rotates scapula
- Anchors and depresses clavicle
- Pulls scapula anteriorly and inferiorly
What is the pericardium?
Membrane that encloses the heart
What are the 4 main muscles of respiration and how do their fibers run?
- External Intercostals (inferoanterior fiber direction or “hands in pocket)
- Internal Intercostals (inferoposterior fiber direction)
- Innermost Intercostals (lateral most part of ICS)
- Subcostals (inferoposterior fiber direction)
What does each main muscle of respiration do?
- Elevate ribs and sternum
2. Depress ribs and sternum
What replaces the external/internal intercostals and where?
- External = anteriorly intercostal membrane
2. Internal = posteriorly internal intercostal membrane
How is the innermost intercostals separated from the internal intercostals?
Intercostal V.A.N. (bundle)`
How many ribs (ICS) do the subcostals cross?
2
What are the 4 arteries of the thoracic wall and what are their branches?
- Axillary Artery - laterall thoracic artery, thoracocromial artery
- Subclavian Artery - 1st and 2nd posterior intercostal arterties, soperior thoracic artery
- Thoracic Aorta - posterior intercostal arteries 3-12
- Internal Thoracic Artery - anterior intercostal arteries, musculophrenic artery, superior epigastric artery
What are the intercostal arteries? Do they both have branches? Name them and tell where they supply.
- Posterior Intercostal Arteries:
a) Dorsal Branch
* Spinal branch (spinal cord)
* Medial cutaneous branch (posterior thoracic wall)
* Lateral cutaneous branch (Posterior thoracic wall)
b) Collateral Branch (lateral thoracic wall)
c) Lateral Cutaneous Branch (anterior thoracic wall from lateral mammary branch)
Name 9 major veins in the thoracic cavity.
- Right Internal Jugular Vein
- Right Brachiocephalic Vein
- Right Subclavian Vein
- Internal Thoracic Vein
- Superior Vena Cava
- Accessory Hemiazygos Vein
- Azygos Vein
- Hemiazygos Vein
- Inferior Vena Cava
What is Kyphosis?
Enhanced posterior convexity
What is Lordosis?
Enhanced posterior concavity
What is Scoliosis?
Lateral deviation of the vertebral column
What is Scoliosis?
Lateral deviation of the vertebral column
What spinal cord levels innervate the dermatome landmarks?
Dermatome C4 = Spinal Nerve C4
etc. They all match.
What is referred pain?
Pain felt in a part of the body other than its actual source
What is C5 dermatome?
Clavicle
What are the 7 organs of the thoracic cavity?
- Trachea (air flow, connects larynx to bronchi of lungs)
- Heart
- Esophagus (carry food, liquids, and saliva to stomach)
- Lungs (breathing)
- Bronchi (shuttle air to lungs)
- Thymus Gland (trains and develops T cells)
- Lymph Node (filter lymph and assist immune response)
Is a missing cephalic vein bad? Where can you find?
No; superiorly into deltopectoral groove
What big artery and nerve are in the deltopectoral triangle?
- Thoracoacromial Artery
2. Lateral Pectoral Nerve
What 3 spots does the deltoid attach to?
- Acromion
- Scapular Spine
- Clavicle
What innervates the deltoid?
Axillary nerve (C5-C6)
What does the clavicular part of the deltoid do?
Flex, internally rotate, and adduct the arm at the shoulder
What does the acromial part of the deltoid do?
Abduct the arm at the shoulder
What does the spinal part of the deltoid do?
Extend, externally rotate, and adduct the arm at the shoulder
What are the 3 parts to the pec major?
- Clavicular Part
- Sternocostal Part
- Abdominal Part
What does the Calvicular Part attach?
Medial half of clavicle
Where does the sternocostal part attach?
Sternum and costal cartilages