Cavities of the Body
Protects the fragile nervous system organs
What is the dorsal cavity?
Baccal
What is the cheek?
Towards the head end or upper part of a structure of the body; Above
What is Superior?
Contained within the skull and vertebral columns
What is the dorsal cavity?
Name the muscle that subdivides the ventral body cavity
What is the diaphragm?
Surrounded by the ribs and muscles of the chest
What is the Thoracic cavity?
Calcaneal
What is the heel of foot?
Toward or at the midline of the body; on the inner side of
What is Medial?
Contains the heart
What is the thoracic cavity?
cutting a body in half laterally
what is transverse?
Encloses the heart and surrounds the remaining thoracic organs
Patellar
What is the anterior aspect of the knee?
Toward or at the body surface
Superficial
It's walls are muscular
What is the abdominal cavity?
The ears are _ and _ to the shoulders.
What is medial and superior?
Thoracic and Abdominopelvic cavities
What is the ventral body cavity?
Antecubital
What is the elbow region?
Between a more medial and a more lateral structure
What is Intermediate?
Contains the small intestine
What is the abdominal cavity?
The abdominopelvic cavity is _ to the thoracic cavity.
What is inferior?
These cavities are joint cavities
What are synovial cavities?
Axillary
What is the armpit region?
Farther from the origin of a body part or the point of attachment of a limb to the body trunk
What is distal?
Holds the eyes in an anterior facing position
What is the orbital cavity?
A section that demonstrates the continuity between the spinal and cranial cavities is a _ section.