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| colspan="2" |Front of abdomen, showing surface markings for duodenum, pancreas, and kidneys.
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|Latin
|colspan="2"|cavitas abdominis
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|[[List of subjects in Gray's Anatomy:#Gray.27s_page_.23|Gray's]]
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|System
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|Precursor
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|MeSH
|colspan="2"|[A01.047.025]
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|Dorlands/Elsevier
|colspan="2"|[c_16/12220388]
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The abdominal cavity is the cavity of the human body (and other animal bodies) that holds the bulk of the viscera and which is located below (or posterior to) the thoracic cavity.
The abdominal cavity is lined with a protective membrane termed the peritoneum. The viscera are also covered, in the front, with a fatty layer called the omentum (or omental apron).
