Difference between pulmonary cavity and thoracic cavity
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Thoracic cavity
The thoracic cavity is basically the chest, including everything between the neck and the diaphragm. It’s home to the thoracic organs and is protected by the thoracic cage. The heart and lungs are essential for survival and both are prone to certain diseases, so you need to be able to examine them.
The thoracic cavity has three compartments: the mediastinum and two pleural cavities. The mediastinum is home to the heart, trachea, great vessels, and some other structures. The pleural cavities are on either side of the mediastinum and contain the lungs and the pleural linings.
Pulmonary cavity
one of the bilateral subdivisions of the thoracic cavity lying on either side of the mediastinum, lined with parietal pleura and occupied by a lung; the space existing when a lung is removed. The term is not synonymous with pleural cavity, which is a space between the parietal and visceral pleura that is normally empty except for a fine layer of pleural fluid and that surrounds (but does not contain) the lung.
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Thoracic cavity
The thoracic cavity is basically the chest, including everything between the neck and the diaphragm. It’s home to the thoracic organs and is protected by the thoracic cage. The heart and lungs are essential for survival and both are prone to certain diseases, so you need to be able to examine them.
The thoracic cavity has three compartments: the mediastinum and two pleural cavities. The mediastinum is home to the heart, trachea, great vessels, and some other structures. The pleural cavities are on either side of the mediastinum and contain the lungs and the pleural linings.
Pulmonary cavity
one of the bilateral subdivisions of the thoracic cavity lying on either side of the mediastinum, lined with parietal pleura and occupied by a lung; the space existing when a lung is removed. The term is not synonymous with pleural cavity, which is a space between the parietal and visceral pleura that is normally empty except for a fine layer of pleural fluid and that surrounds (but does not contain) the lung.
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Thoracic cavity is the cavity in the chest basically between the neck and the diaphragm. It contains the heart and other thoracic organs which are protected by the thoracic cage. The thoracic cavity is divided into two parts mediastinum and two pleural cavities.
Pulmonary cavity is the subdivisional pleural lining on either side of the mediastinum and the space is occupied by the lungs.
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