Anatomical positions

Question 1

Coronal/ Frontal plane

Answer 1

Plane splitting the front and back of body

Question 2

Sagittal / longitutidinal plane

Answer 2

Plane which splits the left side from the right side of the body

Question 3

Transverse / axal / horizontal plane

Answer 3

plane that splits the top part from the bottom part of the body

Question 4

Oblique Plane

Answer 4

plane that passes through body at an oblique angle

Question 5

Superior

Answer 5

Above (towards head)

Question 6

Inferior

Answer 6

below (towards feet)

Question 7

anatomical position

Answer 7

Anterior view of body, arms down by side.

Question 8

How is the left and right side of the body different on diagrams of the body?

Answer 8

The left and right is oposite to your own, as it’s the left and right of their body not yours.

Question 9

Anterior / Ventral

Answer 9

Front of the body

Question 10

Posterior / dorsal

Answer 10

Back of the body

Question 11

Proximal

Answer 11

Closer

Only used to describe the location of two points on the same limb or closer to the trunk of a limb

Question 12

Distal

Answer 12

far away

used to talk about 2 points on a limb or from where limb inserts the body

Question 13

Medial

Answer 13

Any point closer to the midpoint of the body (sagittal)

Question 14

Lateral

Answer 14

Further from mid line (sagittal plane)