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The peritoneal cavity (within the abdomen)
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What body cavity is the ascending aorta found?
Ascending aorta, arch of aorta and the descending aorta are located in your thoracic cavity.
What body cavity is the rectum located in?
Colon
Into what three regions is the colon subdivided into Describe how each of these regions is oriented in the body?
The colon is subdivided into three regions: ascending colon, transverse colon, and descending colon. The ascending colon runs vertically on the right side of the abdomen, the transverse colon crosses horizontally from right to left, and the descending colon descends vertically on the left side of the abdomen.
What body cavity is the Colon located in?
Lower right and left quadrant
What are the names of the parts of the body in the digestive system?
The pharynx, oral cavity, tongue, salivary glands, oesophagus, diaphragm, liver, gallbladder, stomach, pancreas, pancreatic duct, duodenum, common bile duct, small intestine, traverse colon, ascending colon, descending colon, cecum, appendix, rectum, anal canal and the anus.
What body cavity will be opened for the removal of the distal part of the colon and establish a colostomy?
Ventral
What is the path of food through your body?
Mouth-esophagus-stomach-small intestines (duodenum, jejunum, ileum)-large intestines (cecum, ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon)-rectum-anus
What is the path of food through the body?
Mouth-esophagus-stomach-small intestines (duodenum, jejunum, ileum)-large intestines (cecum, ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon)-rectum-anus
What body cavity are the Bronchioles in?
Bronchioles are found in the pleural cavity.
How many major sections does the large intestine have?
The large intestine starts with the cecum, near where the appendix lives. There is then the ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, and sigmoid colon. It ends in the rectum, which then empties through the anus and out of the body.
Are all organs found in a body cavity?
The skin is the largest organ in the body, but the liver is the largest organ inside the abdominal cavity.
In what subdivision of the ventral body cavity is the mediastinum found?
The mediastinum is found in the thoracic cavity.
