Textbook of Anatomy: Abdomen and Lower Limb. Volume 2

Название: Textbook of Anatomy: Abdomen and Lower Limb. Volume 2
Автор: Vishram Singh
Издательство: Elsevier India
Год выпуска: 2014
Язык: English
Качество: отличное
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 737
Размер: 43,9 Mb

The abdomen is the lower part of the trunk below the diaphragm. Its walls surround a large cavity called the abdominal cavity. The abdominal cavity is much more extensive than what it appears from the outside. It extends upward deep to the costal margin up to the diaphragm and downward within the bony pelvis. Thus, a considerable part of the abdominal cavity is overlapped by the lower part of the thoracic cage above and by the bony pelvis below. The abdominal cavity is subdivided by the plane of the pelvic inlet into a larger upper part, i.e., the abdominal cavity proper, and a smaller lower part, i.e., the pelvic cavity.
Clinically the term abdominal cavity stands for abdominal cavity proper.