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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