HUMAN BODY IN HEALTH 2026 EXAMINATION SET
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔superficial - ✔✔external, toward the body surface
Ex: the skin is superfiial to the muscles
✔✔Deep - ✔✔internal, inward from the surface of the body
Ex: the heart lies deep to the ribcage
✔✔Proximal - ✔✔toward the origin of attachment to the trunk
ex: the elbow is proximal to the wrist
✔✔Distal - ✔✔away from the origin of attachment to the trunk
Ex: the knee is distal to the hip and thigh
✔✔Frontal Plane - ✔✔vertical plane passing through the body from side to side,
anterior and posterior
✔✔Sagittal plane - ✔✔vertical plane diving the body into left and right portions
✔✔transverse plane - ✔✔horizontal plane dividing the body into superior and interior
portions
✔✔left/right hypochondriac - ✔✔both sides
✔✔left/right lumbar - ✔✔both sides
✔✔left/right iliac - ✔✔
✔✔epigastric region - ✔✔
✔✔umbilical region - ✔✔
✔✔hypogastric region - ✔✔
✔✔right/left upper quandrent - ✔✔both sides
✔✔right/left lower quadrent - ✔✔
✔✔appendages - ✔✔limbs; head,arms,legs
✔✔trunk - ✔✔central torso
, ✔✔cavities - ✔✔spaces that are partially filled with organs, connecting structures and
fluids
✔✔viscera - ✔✔internal contents of the cavities
✔✔dorsal/ventral cavity - ✔✔contain cranial cavity(brain), spinal cavity(vertebral) and
spinal cord
✔✔diaphragm - ✔✔divides the ventral cavity into an upper and lower cavity
✔✔thoracic cavity - ✔✔superior to the diaphragm
✔✔abdominopelvic cavity - ✔✔inferior to the diaphragm
✔✔pericardial cavity - ✔✔midline of the thoracic cavity
✔✔Mediastinum - ✔✔lies along the midline and is deep to the breastbone/sternum,
contains heart and blood vesicles
✔✔abdomin/o - ✔✔abdomen
✔✔anter/o - ✔✔front
✔✔caud/o - ✔✔tail
✔✔cephal/o - ✔✔head
✔✔cervic/o - ✔✔neck
✔✔cran/o, crani/o - ✔✔skull
✔✔femor/o - ✔✔thigh
✔✔gastr/o - ✔✔stomach
✔✔glute/o - ✔✔buttock
✔✔hom/o, home/o - ✔✔same
✔✔ili/o - ✔✔flank, hip, groin
✔✔infer/o - ✔✔below
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔superficial - ✔✔external, toward the body surface
Ex: the skin is superfiial to the muscles
✔✔Deep - ✔✔internal, inward from the surface of the body
Ex: the heart lies deep to the ribcage
✔✔Proximal - ✔✔toward the origin of attachment to the trunk
ex: the elbow is proximal to the wrist
✔✔Distal - ✔✔away from the origin of attachment to the trunk
Ex: the knee is distal to the hip and thigh
✔✔Frontal Plane - ✔✔vertical plane passing through the body from side to side,
anterior and posterior
✔✔Sagittal plane - ✔✔vertical plane diving the body into left and right portions
✔✔transverse plane - ✔✔horizontal plane dividing the body into superior and interior
portions
✔✔left/right hypochondriac - ✔✔both sides
✔✔left/right lumbar - ✔✔both sides
✔✔left/right iliac - ✔✔
✔✔epigastric region - ✔✔
✔✔umbilical region - ✔✔
✔✔hypogastric region - ✔✔
✔✔right/left upper quandrent - ✔✔both sides
✔✔right/left lower quadrent - ✔✔
✔✔appendages - ✔✔limbs; head,arms,legs
✔✔trunk - ✔✔central torso
, ✔✔cavities - ✔✔spaces that are partially filled with organs, connecting structures and
fluids
✔✔viscera - ✔✔internal contents of the cavities
✔✔dorsal/ventral cavity - ✔✔contain cranial cavity(brain), spinal cavity(vertebral) and
spinal cord
✔✔diaphragm - ✔✔divides the ventral cavity into an upper and lower cavity
✔✔thoracic cavity - ✔✔superior to the diaphragm
✔✔abdominopelvic cavity - ✔✔inferior to the diaphragm
✔✔pericardial cavity - ✔✔midline of the thoracic cavity
✔✔Mediastinum - ✔✔lies along the midline and is deep to the breastbone/sternum,
contains heart and blood vesicles
✔✔abdomin/o - ✔✔abdomen
✔✔anter/o - ✔✔front
✔✔caud/o - ✔✔tail
✔✔cephal/o - ✔✔head
✔✔cervic/o - ✔✔neck
✔✔cran/o, crani/o - ✔✔skull
✔✔femor/o - ✔✔thigh
✔✔gastr/o - ✔✔stomach
✔✔glute/o - ✔✔buttock
✔✔hom/o, home/o - ✔✔same
✔✔ili/o - ✔✔flank, hip, groin
✔✔infer/o - ✔✔below
