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Standard Anatomical Position - ANSWER ✔✔- body erect
- feet slightly apart,
- palms face forward with thumbs pointing away from body.
Language of Anatomy - ANSWER ✔✔to describe body
parts/positions precisely & with as few words as possible
Regional terms - ANSWER ✔✔used to designate specific areas
within the axial or appendicular divisions of the body
Axial division of body - ANSWER ✔✔head, neck, trunk
,Appendicular division of body - ANSWER ✔✔appendages or limbs
attached to axis
midsagittal plane - ANSWER ✔✔vertical plane that divides body into
right & left parts
Parasagittal plane - ANSWER ✔✔Para means around
sagittal plane not exactly down the centerline
anything off sagittal line is parasagittal plane
frontal plane (coronal plane) - ANSWER ✔✔- vertical plane
- divides the body into anterior & posterior parts
Transverse plane - ANSWER ✔✔horizontal plane from right to left
dividing body into superior & inferior parts
Transverse section - ANSWER ✔✔cross-section
Oblique section - ANSWER ✔✔- one that is taken off a 90 degree
angle. All - others are taken at 90 degrees
- rarely used in imaging because very difficult to interpret
cephalic - ANSWER ✔✔head
cervical - ANSWER ✔✔neck area
,thoracic - ANSWER ✔✔thorax
abdominal - ANSWER ✔✔stomach
Pelvic-inguinal - ANSWER ✔✔groin
pubic - ANSWER ✔✔genital
upper limb - ANSWER ✔✔arm area
manus - ANSWER ✔✔hand
lower limb - ANSWER ✔✔leg
pedal - ANSWER ✔✔foot
Dorsal - ANSWER ✔✔Back
Superior (cranial) - ANSWER ✔✔toward head/ upper part of a
structure or the body; above
Inferior (caudal) - ANSWER ✔✔away from the head/ toward the lower
part of a structure or the body; below
Anterior (ventral) - ANSWER ✔✔toward or at the front of the body; in
front of
Posterior (dorsal) - ANSWER ✔✔toward or at the back of the body;
behind
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, ex: the heart is posterior to the breastbone
Medial - ANSWER ✔✔toward/ at the midline of the body; on the inner
side of
Lateral - ANSWER ✔✔away from the midline of body; on the outer
side of
Intermediate - ANSWER ✔✔b/w a more medial and a more lateral
structure
Proximal - ANSWER ✔✔- closer to origin of body part
- point of attachment of a limb to a body trunk
Distal - ANSWER ✔✔- further from origin of body part
- point of attachment of a limb to body trunk
Superficial - ANSWER ✔✔toward or at the body surface (external)
Deep - ANSWER ✔✔Away from the body surface; more internal
Dorsal body cavity (3) - ANSWER ✔✔- protects fragile nervous
system
- cavities are continuous with one another
- brain and spinal cord covered by membrane called meniges