Anatomy Flashcards
What is frontal plane?
divides the body vertically into anterior (front) and posterior (back) pars
What plane is divided into vertically right and left sides?
Sagittal
The horizontal plane divides the body how?
along the horizon into upper and lower parts
What plane feature is toward the head?
Superior or Cranial
What plane feature is towards the feet?
Inferior or Caudal
Anterior/ Ventral is pointing where?
towards the front
What direction is Posterior/Dorsal?
Toward the back
Rostral Means?
Towards beak /nose
What direction is towards the midline of the body?
Which is away from midline?
Medial
Lateral
Proximal means?
toward the trunk or origin
What word means away from the truck or origin?
Distal
What does the dorsal cavity include?
skill and vertebral column, including the brain and spinal cord
A cavity divided into thoracic and abdominal cavities?
Ventral Cavity
What anatomical features are included in the thoracic cavity ?
heart, lungs ,trachea, esophagus, large blood vessels, and nerves
What are the 3 types of muscle cells?
skeletal, cardiac, smooth
Multipolar neurons are found in the CNS in what two structures?
Brain and Spinal cord
Where are bipolar neurons found?
PNS sensory pathways for (taste, olfaction, and vestibular function)
What insulates neurons?
Myelin
What type of glia myelinates axons in the CNS?
Oligodendrocytes
The Schwann cells provide myeling to what axons and in which nervous system?
PNS
What are small non insulated areas of the axon?
Nodes of Ranvier
What is Cranial Nerve # 1 name? What does it do?
Olfactory (s)
Smell
What does the Optic nerve do?
Vision (s)
Cranial never 3
Oculomotor (m)
Eye movement, upper eyelid elevation. pupil constriction