Mediastinum - 2

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The inferior mediastinum is split into 3 different parts anterior, posterior and what third part?

What is the name for the connection between the manubrium and sternum?

What is the name of the pleura that lies on the lung?

What is the name of the space between the parietal pleura lining the superior diaphragmatic surface and the parietal pleura lining the thoracic wall?

The pleura on the lungs is insensitive however parietal pleura is innervated by the phrenic nerve and what else?

What is the name of the main vein that runs on the posterior wall of the left thoracic cage?

At what vertebral level does the aorta pierce the diaphragm?

At what vertebral level does the oesophagus begin?

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And what level does it go through the diaphragm?

Despite being the other way around when they pierce the diaphragm, which of the aorta and oesophagus is more on the left in the thorax?

What structure does the arch of the aorta arch over?

The inferior thyroid artery supplies the first third but what artery supplies the final third of the oesophagus?

Which nerves wrap around the oesophagus to pass through the diaphragm with it?

What muscle is a 'natural constictor producing the upper oesophageal sphincter?

What is the main sympathetic nerve comingfrom the thoracic chain?