MICROANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -What is the pericardium? The pericardium is a thin sac that surrounds your heart. It protects and lubricates your heart and keeps it in place within your chest. Problems can occur when the pericardium becomes enflamed or fills with fluid.

Detailed explanation-2: -Heart is covered by a double layered membrane called the pericardial membrane. It secretes pericardial fluid.

Detailed explanation-3: -The pericardium is the fibrous sac that surrounds the heart. It can be divided into three layers, the fibrous pericardium, the parietal pericardium, and the visceral pericardium. The parietal and visceral pericardia together form the serous pericardium.

Detailed explanation-4: -The pericardium is a fibrous sac that encloses the heart and great vessels. It keeps the heart in a stable location in the mediastinum, facilitates its movements, and separates it from the lungs and other mediastinal structures.