{"id":1697,"date":"2017-07-23T15:48:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T22:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2017-07-23T15:48:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T22:48:59","slug":"dorsal-and-ventral-body-cavities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2017\/07\/23\/dorsal-and-ventral-body-cavities\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorsal and Ventral Body Cavities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most anatomy textbooks begin with descriptions of body cavities and body regions. \u00a0These terms are important for identifying the location of structures. \u00a0For example, you will fund the lungs within the <strong>thoracic cavity<\/strong>, which is the region superior to the diaphragm. \u00a0 The stomach and digestive organs are found in the <strong>abdominal cavity<\/strong>, the region below (inferior) the diaphragm.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>dorsal cavity<\/strong> is located on the back side and the <strong>ventral cavity<\/strong> is the front region of the human.<\/p>\n<p>As you progress through a course on anatomy, you will be asked to located structures by referencing various regions of the body. The diagram shown below shows the main regions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/Dorsal_Ventral_Body_Cavities-wiki.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1698\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/Dorsal_Ventral_Body_Cavities-wiki.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/Dorsal_Ventral_Body_Cavities-wiki.jpg 800w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/Dorsal_Ventral_Body_Cavities-wiki-250x145.jpg 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/Dorsal_Ventral_Body_Cavities-wiki-500x289.jpg 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/Dorsal_Ventral_Body_Cavities-wiki-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/Dorsal_Ventral_Body_Cavities-wiki-244x142.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ADorsal_Ventral_Body_Cavities.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">By Connexions<\/a> [CC BY 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0) or CC BY 4.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2016\/06\/28\/quiz-body-cavities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Practice Quiz on Body Cavities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most anatomy textbooks begin with descriptions of body cavities and body regions. \u00a0These terms are important for identifying the location of structures. \u00a0For example, you will fund the lungs within the thoracic cavity, which is the region superior to the diaphragm. \u00a0 The stomach and digestive organs are found in the abdominal cavity, the region below (inferior) the diaphragm. The dorsal cavity is located on the back side and the ventral cavity is the front region of the human. As you progress through a course on anatomy, you will be asked to located structures by referencing various regions of the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[289,74,169,306,402,262,403,116,173,404],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-abdominal","tag-anatomy","tag-body","tag-cavities","tag-cavity","tag-diaphragm","tag-dorsal","tag-label","tag-thoracic","tag-ventral","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}