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The thoracic cavity has subdivisions.

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The name of the cavity that surrounds the heart?
Which cavities surround the lungs?
(Each in one word.)

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the name of the cavity that surrounds the heart is the pericardial cavity (im pretty sure), and the pleural cavity surrounds the lungs
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Answer: Thoracic

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The thoracic cavity is also knows as the chest cavity and it contains the trachea, bronchi, lungs, esophagus, heart, great blood vessels, thymus gland, lymph nodes and the nerve and it also contains the smaller cavities like for example: Pleural Cavities surround each lung. Pericardial cavity surrounds the heart.

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