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Body Cavities & Mesenteries Flashcards

1
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Types of body cavities

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Cranial
Thoracic
Abdominal

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What’s in the thoracic cavity?

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Pleural cavities
Mediastinum
Pericardial cavity

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Pleural cavities

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Contains the lungs
Parietal and visceral pleura
Pleural space

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Mediastinum

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Space between the pleural cavities

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Pericardial cavity

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Surrounds the heart
Visceral pericardium
Parietal pericardium
Fibrous pericardium
Pericardial space

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Abdominal cavity

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Located caudal to the diaphragm
Peritoneal cavity
Retroperitoneal cavity

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Peritoneal cavity

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Holds all the organs you can scoop

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Retroperitoneal cavity

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Kidneys

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Serosa

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-Is a membrane lining the walls and covering the organs that fill closed cavities
-simple squamous epithelium w/loose CT

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Two types of serosa

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Parietal layer
Visceral layer

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Parietal layer

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Lines the cavity walls

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Parietal pleura

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Lines pleural cavities

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Parietal peritoneum

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Lines peritoneal cavity

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Parietal pericardium

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Lines pericardial sac

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Visceral layer

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Covers the outer surface of the organs

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Visceral pleural

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Lining the lungs

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Visceral peritoneum

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Lines the peritoneal organs

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Visceral pericardium

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Lines the heart

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Mesentery

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Membranes suspending organs within the body cavities

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Abdominal mesentaries

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Falciform ligament
Greater omentum
Lesser omentum
Mesentery proper

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Falciform ligament

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Extends from the liver to diaphragm
Call fill in w/fat

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Greater omentum

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Suspends stomach to dorsal body wall
Double layered
Greater curvature

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OMental bursa

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Potential space between layers

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Epiploic foramen

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Opening of the bursa into the peritoneal cavity

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Lesser omentum

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Much less extensive Mesentery extending from the lesser curvature of the stomach to the liver

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Mesentery proper

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Attaches abdominal wall opposite the second lumbar vertebra by an attachment known as the root of the Mesentery

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Abdominal peritoneal cavity

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Falciform ligament

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Greater omentum

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Diaphragm

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Heart within mediastinum

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Lesser omentum

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Parietal peritoneum

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Visceral peritoneum

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Root of the Mesentery

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Great Mesentery(proper)

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Greater curvature

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Lesser curvature

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Retroperitoneal

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Pleura

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Diaphragm

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Mediastinum

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Pericardial sac

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Thoracic cavity

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Fibrous pericardium

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Pericardium

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Pleura

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