What is apart of the ventral body cavity?
What is apart of the ventral body cavity?
What is apart of the ventral body cavity?
The ventral cavity is at the anterior, or front, of the trunk. Organs contained within this body cavity include the lungs, heart, stomach, intestines, and reproductive organs. You can see some of the organs in the ventral cavity in Figure 10.5.
What is the flat muscular sheet that divides the ventral cavity?
The ventral body cavity is divided by a muscular sheet called the diaphragm into a superior thoracic cavity and an inferior abdominopelvic cavity.
What muscle separates the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities?
The diaphragm
The diaphragm is a thin dome-shaped muscle which separates the thoracic cavity (lungs and heart) from the abdominal cavity (intestines, stomach, liver, etc.).
What is the largest organ in the abdominal cavity?
liver
The largest solid internal organ is your liver. It weighs approximately 3–3.5 pounds or 1.36–1.59 kilograms and is about the size of a football. Your liver is located beneath your rib cage and lungs, in the upper right area of your abdomen.
What organs are in the thoracic cavity?
[2] The thoracic cavity contains organs and tissues that function in the respiratory (lungs, bronchi, trachea, pleura), cardiovascular (heart, pericardium, great vessels, lymphatics), nervous (vagus nerve, sympathetic chain, phrenic nerve, recurrent laryngeal nerve), immune (thymus) and digestive (esophagus) systems.
What are the two major ventral body cavities?
The ventral body cavity is a human body cavity that is in the anterior (front) aspect of the human body. It is made up of the thoracic cavity, and the abdominopelvic cavity.
What is the smallest organ in the abdominal cavity?
The small intestine occupies the majority of the space of the abdominal cavity.
Which organ is located in the ventral cavity and thoracic cavity but not in the mediastinum?
Chapters 1-4 test A&P 1 – (copy)
| A | B |
|---|---|
| Which organ is located in the ventral cavity, but not in the thoracic cavity? | liver |
| What is the descriptive location of the reproductive organs? | ventral cavity |
| Which cavity is divided into quadrants? | abdominopelvic |
| What is the umbilicus? | naval |
What’s your smallest organ?
pineal gland
The smallest organ in the body is the pineal gland, relative to its function. It is situated centrally in the brain, between the hemispheres in a groove. Size is about 8mm in humans.