Anatomy

Question 1

Anatomical position?

Answer 1

• Standing
• Facing towards you
• Face and eyes look anteriorly
• Upper limbs by side
• Palms of hands facing anteriorly
• Feet together
• Toes pointing anteriorly

Question 2

Supine?

Answer 2

Lying on back

Question 3

Prone?

Answer 3

Lying on stomach

Question 4

Axial (transverse) plane)

Answer 4

Separating body vertically
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Question 5

What is the plane from shoulder to hip diagonally called?

Answer 5

Oblique section

Question 6

What is the median plane?

Answer 6

Sagittal cut right down the middle

Question 7

What is the cut that goes vertically from head to feet between legs?

Answer 7

Sagittal plane

Question 8

What is the coronal plane?

Answer 8

Horizontal plane from head to feet

separating toes from rest of foot

Question 9

Superior/cranial?

Answer 9

Nearer to top of the head

Question 10

Inferior or caudal?

Answer 10

Further from midline/median plane

Question 11

Proximal?

Answer 11

Nearer to attachment of limb to the body

Question 12

Internal?

Answer 12

Nearer to the centre of the body/organ

Question 13

Dorsal?

Answer 13

Refers to the front 
(non-palm side of hand)
(upper side (posterior) of the tongue)
(Superior surface of foot)
Upper side of wrist(where clock face goes)

Question 14

How you describe right a left?

Answer 14

According to the patient in anatomical position

Question 15

Anterior surface of wrist is called?

Answer 15

Volar

Question 16

Anterior surface of tongue?

Answer 16

ventral

Question 17

What is described as plantar?

Answer 17

Inferior surface of foot

Question 18

Ipsilateral?

Answer 18

Structure lies on same side of body as other structure or location it is being compared to

Question 19

Contralateral?

Answer 19

Structure lies on opposite side of body to other structures it is being compared to

Question 20

Description of decreasing the angle between bones at a joint? And it’s opposite?

Answer 20

Flexion

-Extension

Question 21

What is abduction?

Answer 21

MOovement away from median plane

Question 22

What is opposite of abduction?

Answer 22

Adduction

Movement towards median plane

Question 23

Circumduction?

Answer 23

Circular motion at a joint

Question 24

Eversion of foot?

Answer 24

Sole of foot rotates away from median plane such that the foot faces laterally

Question 25

What is pronation?

Answer 25

Anterior surface of the forearm rotates such that the palm of the hand faces posteriorly

Question 26

What position is the palm in anatomical position?

Answer 26

Supination

Question 27

Adduction of thumb?

Answer 27

Adding thumb back to hand after abduction

Question 28

Flexion of thumb?

Answer 28

Folding thumb across palm

Question 29

Aponeurosis?

Answer 29

Flattened tendon

-Most commonly associated with flat muscles