Anatomy 2 and 3 - How do clinicians communicate + Body Systems

Question 1

Word for when patient is lying on their tummy flat?

Answer 1

Prone

Question 2

Plane which cuts you vertically (one arm and leg in each halve)?

Answer 2

Sagittal plane (longitudinal)

Question 3

Plane that slices you into anterior and posterior parts?

Answer 3

Coronal plane (frontal)

Question 4

Plane which cuts you horizontally?

Answer 4

Axial (transverse) plane

Question 5

Other name for inferior?

Answer 5

Caudal

Question 6

Name for anterior and posterior surface of wrist?

Answer 6

Anterior = volar
Posterior = dorsal

Question 7

Name for anterior and posterior surface of hand?

Answer 7

A = palmar
P = dorsal

Question 8

Name for anterior and posterior surface of tongue?

Answer 8

A (top) = dorsal

P = ventral

Question 9

Name for superior and inferior surface of foot?

Answer 9

S = dorsal
I = Plantar

Question 10

What is the word used to describe a single structure located at the median plane?

Answer 10

Midline

Question 11

What is the name of a sagittal plane taken right in the midline?

Answer 11

Median (median sagittal) plane - paramedian if exactly parallel to the median plane

Question 12

Opposite of ipsilateral?

Answer 12

Contralateral (structures lie on opposite sides of the body)

Question 13

What is the name for decreasing the angle between the bones at a joint? Opposite?

Answer 13

Flexion

Extension

Question 14

What is the name for movement away from the median plane? Opposite?

Answer 14

Abduction

Adduction

Question 15

What is the name when the anterior surface of a limb rotates towards the median plane? Opposite (each has 2 names)

Answer 15

Internal/ medial rotation

External/ lateral rotation

Question 16

What is the name for a circular motion at a joint?

Answer 16

Circumduction

Question 17

What is the name for when the sole of the foot rotates away from the median plane?Opposite?

Answer 17

Eversion

Inversion

Question 18

What s the name for flexion at the ankle joint (as if walking up a hill)? Opposite?

Answer 18

Dorsiflexion

Plantar flexion

Question 19

What is the name when the anterior surface of the forearm rotates such that the palm of the hand faces posteriorly? Opposite?Name for position of forearm when midway between the supine and prone positions?

Answer 19

Pronation
Supination
Semi-prone

Question 20

Name for when thumb and pinky come together?Opposite?

Answer 20

Opposition

Reposition

Question 21

Name for when you spread your fingers out and opposite?

Answer 21

Abduction

Adduction

Question 22

2 phrases that can be used to describe wiggling 3rd digit at the metacarpopharyngeal joint?

Answer 22

Lateral abduction

Medial abduction

Question 23

Taking the thumb anteriorly away from the palm name?Opposite?

Answer 23

Abduction

Adduction

Question 24

Name for taking the thumb laterally away from, and in the corneal plane of, the palm?Oppsoite

Answer 24

Extension

Flexion

Question 25

Name for superior and inferior movement of the shoulders?

Answer 25

Elevation

Depression

Question 26

Name for anterior movement and posterior movement of lower jaw?

Answer 26

Protrusion

Retrusion

Question 27

Name for anterior movement and posterior movement of shoulder?

Answer 27

Protraciton

Retraction

Question 28

What is the system that consists of the skin, nails, hair and exocrine glands and protects the body from various types of damage?

Answer 28

Integumentary system

Question 29

What are the 4 basic tissue types?

Answer 29

Muscle
Epithelia (covers the external surface of the body and lines hollow structures)
Nerves
Connective tissue

Question 30

What is an organ?

Answer 30

A group of tissues acting together to perform a specific function(s)

Question 31

What are systems?

Answer 31

Collections of organs that have related functions and work together to carry out a common “goal”

Question 32

What is the major lymphatic vessel which return lymph to large veins in the root of the neck?

Answer 32

Thoracic duct

Question 33

What do CO2 and water combine to form?

Answer 33

Carbonic acid

Lactic acid is produce by muscles during heavy exercise

Question 34

What systems of the body excrete waste products?

Answer 34

Respiratory
Renal
GI (cellular debris, ingestible foodstuffs, bacteria, commensals and pathogen, ingested drugs)
Lymphatics

Question 35

What is the first line of protection against the external environment?

Answer 35

The skin (integumentary system)

Question 36

What 2 systems of the body regulate its processes?

Answer 36

Nervous system (quick) and endocrine system (slow)

Question 37

What body system are the ovaries, testis and pancreas all part of?

Answer 37

Endocrine system (secrete hormones into capillary blood)