How do all of our internal organs stay in their own spot and not move around or drop to other places in our body as we move?
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In the abdominal cavity, you have the mesentery and mesocolon, which are thin connective tissues that anchors many of your organs to a spot on the posterior wall of the cavity. Other organs, like the kidneys and pancreas are embedded in the wall, and we call those retroperitoneal organs. In your thoracic cavity, you have your heart and lungs sitting in their own cavities (pericardial and pleural cavities) occupying the majority of the space. In the pelvic cavity, the organs are mostly anchored to the walls via adventitia (think glued to the cavity wall). Other organs, like the ovaries and uterus are anchored in placed by ligaments.
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Fascia have recently been reconsidered as its own separate organ.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290597472_The_fascial_organ
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Great question. Your viscera allow your guts to move friction free and without damage. It’s like a lubercated ziplock bag surrounding each organ if that makes sense.
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It’s called omentum. It’s a bunch of connective tissue that folds around your organs. Also each organ has its own blood supply and ligaments which hold it in place. Stuff can move though….before I had my hysterectomy they were looking with ultrasound and my left ovary had migrated over to the right side and was stuck to my right ovary.
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