Anatomical Terms

Question 1

Rostral

Answer 1

At the head end; beak

Question 2

Caudal

Answer 2

Pertaining to the tail end

Question 3

Dorsum

Answer 3

back

Question 4

Palmar

Answer 4

Referring to the palm of the hand

Question 5

Plantar

Answer 5

Relating to the sole of the foot

Question 6

Fascia

Answer 6

A sheet of fibrous tissue that envelops the body beneath the skin; it also encloses muscles and groups of muscles and separates their several layers or groups.

Question 7

Parietal

Answer 7

Relating to the wall of any cavity

Question 8

Visceral

Answer 8

Guts

Question 9

Process

Answer 9

projection or outgrowth

Question 10

Oblique

Answer 10

Slanting; deviating from the perpendicular, horizontal, sagittal, or coronal plane of the body

Question 11

Sulcus

Answer 11

long narrow groove

Question 12

Aponeurosis

Answer 12

A sheetlike tendinous expansion, mainly serving to connect a muscle to the parts it moves.

Question 13

Fossa

Answer 13

A depression usually more or less longitudinal in shape below the level of the surface of a part.

Question 14

Foramen

Answer 14

A hole through a bone or a membranous structure.

Question 15

Sinus

Answer 15

A cavity or hollow space in bone or other tissue.

Question 16

Ipsilateral

Answer 16

On the same side

Question 17

Contralateral

Answer 17

Relating to the opposite side

Question 18

Ventral

Answer 18

Pertaining to the belly or undersurface

Question 19

Axial

Answer 19

1. Relating to an axis.
2. Relating to or situated in the central part of the body, in the head and trunk as distinguished from the limbs, axial skeleton.

Question 20

Origin

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The starting point

Question 21

insertion

Answer 21

1. A putting in.

2. The usually more distal attachment of a muscle

Question 22

Action

Answer 22

The performance of any of the vital functions

Question 23

innervation

Answer 23

The supply of nerve fibers functionally connected with a part.

Question 24

Axilla

Answer 24

armpit

Question 25

Cubital

Answer 25

Relating to the elbow or to the ulna.

Question 26

Popliteal

Answer 26

area behind the knee

Question 27

Relating to the arm.

Answer 27

Relating to the arm.

Question 28

Osseous

Answer 28

Bony, of bonelike consistency or structure.

Question 29

Costal

Answer 29

Relating to a rib.

Question 30

Cervical

Answer 30

Relating to a neck, or cervix, in any sense.