Corpus: Compartment

In medicine, a compartment is a mentally constructed or spatially representable part of the human body or its elements.

Cell compartments[Bearbeiten]

Within the cell, compartments for certain biochemical processes are demarcated by intracellular membranes. These compartments are represented as cell organelles. These include, among others:

• Endoplasmic reticulum
• Mitochondria
• Vesicles

Muscle compartments[Bearbeiten]

Compartments of the musculature or muscular ligaments are functionally related skeletal muscles that are surrounded by a common aponeurosis. In anatomy, they are referred to by the Latin term "Compartimentum", which is translated into German as "Loge". Examples of such lodges are:

• Flexor lodge of the thigh (Compartimentum femoris posterius)
• Extensor ligament of the thigh (Compartimentum femoris anterius)
• Adductor ligament of the thigh (Compartimentum femoris mediale)
• Flexor compartment of the lower leg (Compartimentum cruris posterius)
• Extensor compartment of the lower leg (Compartimentum cruris anterius)
• Fibularis ligament (Compartimentum cruris laterale)

Body compartments[Bearbeiten]

The entire body can also be divided into compartments, whereby these compartments are not spatially delimitable structures, but constructs developed from theoretical considerations. The body compartments include, for example:

• Body fat
• Lean mass
• Total body water
• Extracellular space
• Intracellular space