NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The chest (thoracic) cavity is the area surrounded by the thoracic vertebrae, the ribs, the sternum, and the diaphragm. The lungs are housed in the chest cavity, a space that also includes the mediastinum.

Detailed explanation-2: -thoracic cavity, also called chest cavity, the second largest hollow space of the body. It is enclosed by the ribs, the vertebral column, and the sternum, or breastbone, and is separated from the abdominal cavity (the body’s largest hollow space) by a muscular and membranous partition, the diaphragm.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thoracic cavity–the space occupied by the ventral internal organs superior to the diaphragm.

Detailed explanation-4: -The thorax is the body cavity, surrounded by the bony rib cage, that contains the heart and lungs, the great vessels, the esophagus and trachea, the thoracic duct, and the autonomic innervation for these structures.

Detailed explanation-5: -The diaphragm is an upward curved, c-shaped structure of muscle and fibrous tissue that separates the thoracic cavity from the abdomen. The superior surface of the dome forms the floor of the thoracic cavity, and the inferior surface the roof of the abdominal cavity.