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-as of [1 APRIL 2025]–
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(OUTER LINING OF “ABDOMINAL CAVITY”)
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-PHARYNX-
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“GALLBLADDER”
(aids in fat digestion)

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“SMALL INTESTINE”
(absorption of minerals in food)
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“LARGE INTESTINE”
“CECUM”
(from latin “caecus” –> “blind”)
(first part of large intestine)
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“COLON”
(extracts ‘water’ + ‘salt’ from ‘solid wastes’)

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“RECTUM”
(latin for “straight”)
(as in “erection”)
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-THE [ANUS]-
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-the abdominal cavity is the largest ‘body cavity’ in ‘humans’ + many ‘animals’-
(holds the bulk of the ‘viscera’)
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(it is located below (inferior to) the thoracic cavity, and above the ‘pelvic cavity’)
(its dome-shaped roof is the thoracic diaphragm (a thin sheet of muscle under the lungs), and its oblique floor is the pelvic inlet (the superior opening of the ‘pelvis’))
(it is a part of the ‘abdominopelvic cavity’)
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(it is well connected with the ‘pleural (thoracic) cavity’)
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☜*“THE HUMAN DIGESTIVE SYSTEM”* ☞
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