Body Cavities Flashcards
What body cavity is indicated by the star?
Cranial Cavity
What cavity is indicated by the star?
Vertebral Canal
What cavity is indicated by the star?
Thoracic Cavity
What cavity is indicated by the star?
Abdominal Cavity
What cavity is indicated by the star?
Pelvic Cavity
The abdominal and pelvic cavity make up what ventral body cavity?
Abdominopelvic Cavity
What is the cavity identified with the star?
Nasal Cavity
What cavity is the arrow pointing at?
Oral Cavity
Left Pleural Cavity
Right Pleural Cavity
Pericardial Cavity
This anatomical structure (indicated by the arrow) divides the thoracic cavity from the abdominopelvic.
Diaphragm
Pelvic Cavity
What do pleural cavities surround?
The lungs
What is the mediastinum?
Space between the lung.
Parietal Layer
The layer that lines the cavity wall. The “outline” of the cavity.
Visceral Layer
Layer attached to (directly covers) the organ.
Pericardial Cavity
The membrane around the heart. This is the “area” between the visceral and parietal layers.
Organs are often isolated from cavity walls and other organs by double-layered…
Membranes
This is the ______ pericardium
Parietal
This is the ______ layer. What does is it touching?
Visceral. It is touching/covering the heart (organ).
This is the pericardial ______?
cavity
What is the pericardial cavity filled with?
Serous Fluid
