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Allied Health Questions with Answers (100% Correct
Answers)
What is the anatomical position? Answer: The body is upright and
facing forward, with the arms at the sides and the palms up.
What are the three body planes? Answer: Transverse, midsagittal, and
frontal.
How does the transverse plane divide the body? Answer: It is
horizontal and divides the body into the top and bottom half.
Superior Answer: Body parts above other parts
Inferior Answer: Body parts below other parts
Cranial Answer: Refers to body parts towards the head
Caudal Answer: Refers to body parts towards the spine or feet
How does the midsagittal plane divide the body? Answer: Divides the
body into equal right and left halves.
Medial Answer: Body parts towards the midsagittal plane
Lateral Answer: Body parts away from the midsagittal plane
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How does the frontal plane divide the body? Answer: Divides the
body into the front and back sections
Ventral Answer: Body parts towards the front section (Anterior)
Dorsal Answer: Body parts towards the back section (Posterior)
Proximal Answer: Body Parts towards the point of attachment
Distal Answer: Body parts distant from the point of attachment
What are body cavities? Answer: spaces within the body that contain
vital organs
Where is the dorsal cavity located? Answer: Located on the back of the
body
Where is the ventral cavity located? Answer: Located on the front side
of the body
How is the dorsal cavity divided and what is contained in each?
Answer: Cranial cavity- contains the brain
Spinal cavity- contains the spinal cord
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How is the ventral cavity divded and what is contained in each?
Answer: Thoracic (chest) cavity- Contains the trachea, esophaguas,
bronchi, lungs, heart, and major blood vessels
Abdominal cavity- Contains the stomach, small intestine, most of the
large intestine, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and spleen
Pelvic cavity- Contains the reproductive organs, bladder and rectum
What are the three cavities in the skull and what do they contain?
Answer: Orbital- contains the eye structures
Nasal- contains the parts that form the nose
Oral- contains the teeth, tongue, and mouth
What are the quadrants of the abdominal cavity, and where are they
located? Answer: Right upper quadrant (RUQ), left upper quadrant
(LUQ), right lower quadrant (RLQ), and left lower quadrant (LLQ)
What are the nine regions of the abominal cavity? Answer: Epigastric-
above the stomach
Umbilical- near the umbilicus
Hypogastric- below the stomach
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left/right hypochondriac- below the ribs
left/right lunbar- near the waist
left/right iliac- near the hips
What are the four vital signs? Answer: Temperature, pulse,
respiration, and blood pressure
Why are vital signs important? Answer: They're the first indication of
disease or abnormality
What are other indicators of health? Answer: Degree of pain, the color
of skin, size of pupils, pupil's reaction to light, level of consciousness,
and patient's reaction to stimuli.
What body measurement are recorded? Answer: A pateint's height
and weight. For infants, head circumference as well.
Why are body measurments important? Answer: Used for testing,
dosages, and comparison to others. Also signals abnormalities and
disease
What are some different types of scales? Answer: Balance beam scale,
infant scale, bed scale, wheelchair scale
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Allied Health Questions with Answers (100% Correct
Answers)
What is the anatomical position? Answer: The body is upright and
facing forward, with the arms at the sides and the palms up.
What are the three body planes? Answer: Transverse, midsagittal, and
frontal.
How does the transverse plane divide the body? Answer: It is
horizontal and divides the body into the top and bottom half.
Superior Answer: Body parts above other parts
Inferior Answer: Body parts below other parts
Cranial Answer: Refers to body parts towards the head
Caudal Answer: Refers to body parts towards the spine or feet
How does the midsagittal plane divide the body? Answer: Divides the
body into equal right and left halves.
Medial Answer: Body parts towards the midsagittal plane
Lateral Answer: Body parts away from the midsagittal plane
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How does the frontal plane divide the body? Answer: Divides the
body into the front and back sections
Ventral Answer: Body parts towards the front section (Anterior)
Dorsal Answer: Body parts towards the back section (Posterior)
Proximal Answer: Body Parts towards the point of attachment
Distal Answer: Body parts distant from the point of attachment
What are body cavities? Answer: spaces within the body that contain
vital organs
Where is the dorsal cavity located? Answer: Located on the back of the
body
Where is the ventral cavity located? Answer: Located on the front side
of the body
How is the dorsal cavity divided and what is contained in each?
Answer: Cranial cavity- contains the brain
Spinal cavity- contains the spinal cord
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How is the ventral cavity divded and what is contained in each?
Answer: Thoracic (chest) cavity- Contains the trachea, esophaguas,
bronchi, lungs, heart, and major blood vessels
Abdominal cavity- Contains the stomach, small intestine, most of the
large intestine, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and spleen
Pelvic cavity- Contains the reproductive organs, bladder and rectum
What are the three cavities in the skull and what do they contain?
Answer: Orbital- contains the eye structures
Nasal- contains the parts that form the nose
Oral- contains the teeth, tongue, and mouth
What are the quadrants of the abdominal cavity, and where are they
located? Answer: Right upper quadrant (RUQ), left upper quadrant
(LUQ), right lower quadrant (RLQ), and left lower quadrant (LLQ)
What are the nine regions of the abominal cavity? Answer: Epigastric-
above the stomach
Umbilical- near the umbilicus
Hypogastric- below the stomach
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left/right hypochondriac- below the ribs
left/right lunbar- near the waist
left/right iliac- near the hips
What are the four vital signs? Answer: Temperature, pulse,
respiration, and blood pressure
Why are vital signs important? Answer: They're the first indication of
disease or abnormality
What are other indicators of health? Answer: Degree of pain, the color
of skin, size of pupils, pupil's reaction to light, level of consciousness,
and patient's reaction to stimuli.
What body measurement are recorded? Answer: A pateint's height
and weight. For infants, head circumference as well.
Why are body measurments important? Answer: Used for testing,
dosages, and comparison to others. Also signals abnormalities and
disease
What are some different types of scales? Answer: Balance beam scale,
infant scale, bed scale, wheelchair scale
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