Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD The diaphragm is a dome-shaped muscle that separates the chest from the abdomen. This ...

"Your thoracic cavity (chest cavity) is a space inside your thorax (chest) that contains your heart, lungs and other organs and tissues," according to ClevelandClinic.org. A thoracic contusion is ...

When a bleb ruptures the air escapes into the chest cavity causing a pneumothorax (air between the lung and chest cavity) which can result in a collapsed lung. If blebs become larger or come together ...

The David J. Sugarbaker Division of Thoracic Surgery at Baylor Medicine specializes in the care and treatment of patients with all benign and malignant disorders of the chest cavity (thorax). This ...

For example, the visceral pleura lines the lungs, and the parietal pleura covers the inner thoracic wall. In dogs, the pleural cavity exists as a potential space, with the visceral and parietal ...

Lungs and a pulmonary circulation replace gills ... This allowed contraction and relaxation of muscles of body wall, changing volume of thoracic cavity and allowing amphibian to suck air in and expel ...

Thoracic endometriosis is when endometriosis tissue is found on the lungs or chest, this can either be on the surface, which is called superficial endometriosis or can infiltrate the chest cavity ...