Body Organisation + Body Cavities

Question 1

What is found within the peritoneal cavity?
a. pleural fluid
b. the pericardium
c. peritoneal fluid
d. the mediastinum

Answer 1

c.
peritoneal fluid

Question 2

What are the boundries of the thoracic cavity?

Answer 2

• Cranial = Thoracic inlet
• Caudal = Diaphragm
• Dorsal = Thoracic vertebrae
• Ventral = Sternum
• Lateral = Ribs & intercostal muscles

Question 3

What is the cranial boundry of the thoracic cavity?

Answer 3

Thoracic inlet

Question 4

What is the caudal boundry of the thoracic cavity?

Answer 4

Diaphragm

Question 5

What is the ventral boundry of the thoracic cavity?

Answer 5

Sternum

Question 6

What is the dorsal boundry of the thoracic cavity?

Answer 6

Thoracic vertebrae

Question 7

What is the lateral boundry of the thoracic cavity?

Answer 7

Ribs + Intercostal muscles

Question 8

What can you find between the parietal pericardium and the visceral pericardium?

Answer 8

Serous fluid
(In the pericardial cavity)

Question 9

What is the function of serous fluid, that can be found in the pericardial cavity?

Answer 9

Lubricates the organs

Question 10

What envelopes the abdominal organs?

Answer 10

Mesentery

Question 11

What lines the inside of the thoracic cavity?

Answer 11

The Parietal pleura

Question 12

What does the pulmonary pleura cover?

Answer 12

The Lung

Question 13

What is the mediastinum?

Answer 13

A vertical connective tissue septum, which separates the two pleural cavities

Question 14

What is the omentum?

Answer 14

The fold of peritoneum that extends from stomach to (adjacent) organs

Question 15

When the VS is performing a ovariohysterectomy, name the layers, in order, to which they are incised.

Answer 15

1. Skin
2. Subcutaenous fat
3. Linea alba
4. Peritoneum

Question 16

What structure houses special cells which produce mucus?
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And what are they called?

Answer 16

Epithelial tissue houses goblet cells, which produce mucus