Anatomical Terminology

Question 1

What is the anatomical position?

Answer 1

1. Body erect
2. Feet slightly apart
3. Palms face forward
   4.Thumbs point away from body

Question 2

What is the difference between superior and inferior? What are the other ways to say this?

Answer 2

above/below
cranial/caudal

Question 3

What is the other way to say anterior and posterior?

Answer 3

Ventral/dorsal

Question 4

What does medial and lateral reference?

Answer 4

closeness to the midline (center point) of body

Question 5

What does distal and proximal refer to and encompass?

Answer 5

closeness of attachment to main body cavity (trunk)
also can be used as superior and inferior in reference to the head

Question 6

What is considered thoracic? What body parts are included in it?

Answer 6

Chest,
sternal, axillary, mammary

Question 7

What is considered the upper limb?

Answer 7

Acromial, brachial, antecubital/olecranal, antebrachial, carpal

Question 8

What are the parts of the hand? What is the medial term of hand?

Answer 8

Manus
palmar, pollex, digital

Question 9

What are the parts of the lower limb?

Answer 9

Coxal (hip), femoral, patellar/popliteal, crural, sural, fibular/peroneal

Question 10

What is your leg, calf, side of the leg called?

Answer 10

crural, sural, fibular (peroneal)

Question 11

What is the difference between leg and thigh?

Answer 11

femoral, crural
femoral is above knee crural is below

Question 12

What is considered the pedal? What does that mean?

Answer 12

foot
tarsal (ankle), calcaneal heal), digital, plantar (sole of foot), hallux (big toe)

Question 13

What body parts are located on the dorsal?

Answer 13

scapular, vertebral, lumbar, gluteal, perineal

Question 14

What is the back of the head called?

Answer 14

Occipital

Question 15

What is the difference between patellar and popliteal?

Answer 15

Patellar (kneecap) , popliteal (back of knee)

Question 16

What is considered posterior in the cephalic region?

Answer 16

otic, occipital

Question 17

Is cervical part of anterior and posterior views?

Answer 17

yes

Question 18

What is the dorsum?

Answer 18

dorsal/back

Question 19

What is the difference between scapular and sacral?

Answer 19

Scapular is the shoulder blade
Sacral is region on back between hip bones below the lumbar region

Question 20

Where is the perineal located?

Answer 20

Between anus and external genitalia

Question 21

What is on the posterior side view of the pedal?

Answer 21

calcaneal and plantar (sole of foot)

Question 22

What are the different body planes? Describe the differences between them

Answer 22

Median/ sagittal –> midsagittal (left and right)
Frontal/coronal (front and back)
Transverse (cut at hips)

Question 23

What are the two main body cavities?

Answer 23

Dorsal, ventral

Question 24

What is included in the dorsal body cavity? What do they contain?

Answer 24

cranial cavity (brain)
vertebral cavity (spine)

Question 25

What are the two main sections of the ventral body cavity? What do they contain?

Answer 25

Abdomino-pelvic cavity (abdominal (digestive organs), pelvic (urinary bladder, reproductive organs, rectum)

Divided by diaphragm

Thoracic (heart and lungs )

Question 26

What is the membrane of the ventral body cavity?

Answer 26

Serosa, serous membrane
lines inner cavity walls (pariteal serosa) and external surface of organs (visceral serosa)

Pleura (serous membrane for lungs)
Pericardium (serous membrane for heart)
Peritoneum (abdominal viscera/stomach/kidney area)

Question 27

What membrane surrounds the dorsal cavities?

Answer 27

Meninges

Question 28

What are the four quadrants of the abdominal-pelvic region?

Answer 28

Right and left of patient
RUQ, LUQ, RLQ, LLQ

Question 29

What are the nine regions of the abdominal pelvic area?

Answer 29

Right hypochondriac region
Right lateral (lumbar region)
Right inguinal region

Epigastric
Umbilical
Pubic (hypogastric)

Left hypochondriac
Left lateral lumbar
Left inguinal iliac