Anatomical Directions

Question 1

What is Supine Position?

Answer 1

When your body is lying facing up

Question 2

What is Prone Position?

Answer 2

When your body is lying facing down

Question 3

What term means towards our front?

Answer 3

Anterior (Ventral)

Question 4

What term means towards our back?

Answer 4

Posterior (Dorsal)

Question 5

What term means towards our head?

Answer 5

Superior

Question 6

What term means away from our head?

Answer 6

Inferior

Question 7

What term means closer to the sight of attachment?

Answer 7

Proximal

Question 8

What term means farther from the sight of attachment?

Answer 8

Dista;

Question 9

What term means towards the midline of the body?

Answer 9

Medial

Question 10

What term means away from the midline of the body?

Answer 10

Lateral

Question 11

What term means closer to the inside/internal structure of the body?

Answer 11

Deep

Question 12

What term means on the towards the outside of the body?

Answer 12

Superficial

Question 13

What cut does the Coronal/Frontal Plane make?

Answer 13

Vertical cut that divides the body into front and back.

Question 14

What cut does the Transverse Plane make?

Answer 14

Horizontal cut that divides the body into top and bottom.

Question 15

What cut does the Midsagittal Plane make?

Answer 15

Vertical cut that divides the body exactly in the middle to equal right and left parts.

Question 16

What cut does the Parasagittal Plane make?

Answer 16

Vertical cut that divides the body parallel to the midsagittal cut.

Question 17

What is the axial region?

Answer 17

Contains your head, neck, and trunk. Forms the main vertical axis of your body

Question 18

What is the Appendicular region?

Answer 18

Contains your upper and lower limbs.