Body Cavities

Question 1

What are the Axial body cavities?

Answer 1

Dorsal Body Cavity & Ventral Body Cavity

Question 2

How is the Dorsal Body Cavity divided?

Answer 2

Cranial Cavity - Containing the Brain

Spinal Cavity - Containing the Spinal Cord

Question 3

How is the Ventral Body Cavity divided?

Answer 3

Thoracic Cavity - Containing the Heart and Lungs
Abdominopelvic Cavity -
- Abdominal Cavity contains the digestive organs
- Pelvic Cavity contains the urinary and reproductive organs

Question 4

What separates the Thoracic and Abdominopelvic Cavities?

Answer 4

The Diaphram - A dome shape

Question 5

The walls of the Ventral body cavity and the outer surfaces of the organs it contains are covered in an exceedingly thin, double layered membrane called?

Answer 5

the Serosa or Serous Membrane

Question 6

What is the Peritoneum?

Answer 6

Serosa lining the abdominal cavity and covering its organs

Question 7

What is the Pleura?

Answer 7

The Serosa lining covering the lungs

Question 8

What is the Pericardium

Answer 8

The Serosa lining covering the heart

Question 9

What does Serosa do?

Answer 9

Produces a thin lubricating fluid that allows the organs to move against each and the body wall with minimal friction

Question 10

There are four quadrants in the Abdominopelvic cavity what are they?

Answer 10

Upper Right, Upper Left, Lower Right, Lower Left

all in relation to the anatomical position

Question 11

list the smaller body cavities

Answer 11

Oral Cavity - mouth
Nasal Cavity - Nose
Orbital Cavity - Eyes
Middle Ear Cavity - ear
Synovial - joints