Anatomical position, planes of movement and body movements

Question 1

what is the sagittal plane?

Answer 1

a plane dividing the body into right and left sections

Question 2

What is the midsagittal plane?

Answer 2

Divides the body equally down the center into right and left halves

Question 3

What plane do flexion and extension occur along?

Answer 3

Sagittal plane

Question 4

what two directions relate to a sagittal plane?

Answer 4

medial and lateral

Question 5

What is a frontal plane?

Answer 5

A plane that divides the body into front and back

Question 6

What is another name for a ‘frontal’ plane?

Answer 6

Coronal plane

Question 7

What two directions relate to a frontal plane?

Answer 7

anterior and posterior

Question 8

What movements happen along a frontal plane?

Answer 8

abduction and adduction

Question 9

What is a transverse plane

Answer 9

a plane that divides the body into top and bottom sections

Question 10

what type of movement occurs along the transverse plane?

Answer 10

rotation

Question 11

what two directions relate to a transverse plane?

Answer 11

superior and inferior

Question 12

What direction does ‘superior’ mean

Answer 12

closer to the head

Question 13

What direction does ‘inferior’ mean?

Answer 13

Closer to the feet

Question 14

What direction does cranial refer to?

Answer 14

Closer to the head, in reference to the trunk

Question 15

what direction does caudal refer to?

Answer 15

Closer the the tail aka butt, in reference to the trunk

Question 16

What direction does posterior mean?

Answer 16

Towards the back

Question 17

What direction does Anterior mean

Answer 17

toward the front

Question 18

What direction does medial mean?

Answer 18

Closer to the midline

Question 19

What direction does Lateral mean

Answer 19

Farther from the midline

Question 20

What direction does distal mean?

Answer 20

Farther away from the trunk or from the midline. Also farther away from the point of origin

Question 21

What direction does Proximal mean?

Answer 21

Closer to the trunk

Question 22

What direction does superficial mean?

Answer 22

Closer to the body’s surface

Question 23

What direction does deep mean?

Answer 23

Farther from the body’s surface, deeper in the body

Question 24

What type of motion is extension?

Answer 24

A movement that opens up (straightens) a joint or moves two bones away from each other.

Question 25

What type of motion is flexion?

Answer 25

A movement that bends a joint or brings two bones closer to each other.

Question 26

what type of motion is adduction?

Answer 26

A movement that brings a limb towards the midline.

Question 27

What type of motion is abduction?

Answer 27

A movement that brings a limb away from the midline.

Question 28

What is medial rotation?

Answer 28

Also known as internal rotation, it is rotation that turns the joint in towards the midline.

Question 29

What is lateral rotation?

Answer 29

Also known as external rotation, it is rotation that turns the joint away from the midline.

Question 30

What is rotation?

Answer 30

This is rotation that refers only to the axial skeleton, and happens along the transverse plane.

Question 31

What is circumduction?

Answer 31

This is the complex movement possible only at the hips and shoulders. It is composed of flexion, extension,abduction, and adduction.

Question 32

What is Lateral flexion?

Answer 32

Lateral flexion is when the head or vertebral column bends from side to side along the frontal plane.

Question 33

What is supination?

Answer 33

Supination is when the hands and/or feet are in anatomical position.

Question 34

What is pronation?

Answer 34

Pronation is when the radius and ulna are crossed. (the opposite of supination) Likewise for the feet.

Question 35

What is inversion?

Answer 35

To turn in the sole of the foot medially

Question 36

What is eversion?

Answer 36

To turn out the sole of the foot laterally

Question 37

What is opposition?

Answer 37

When the thumb crosses the palm towards the pinkie

Question 38

What is plantar flexion

Answer 38

Pointing the toes towards the ground

Question 39

What is dorsiflexion?

Answer 39

Lifting the foot away from the earth

Question 40

What is elevation

Answer 40

Superior movement of the scapula or the jaw

Question 41

What is depression?

Answer 41

Inferior movement of the scapula or the jaw

Question 42

What is deviation?

Answer 42

A wandering from the normal course, as in the lateral deviation of the jaw (moving it side to side)