Anatomy Flashcards
Anatomical position?
- Standing
- Facing towards you
- Face and eyes look anteriorly
- Upper limbs by side
- Palms of hands facing anteriorly
- Feet together
- Toes pointing anteriorly
Supine?
Lying on back
Prone?
Lying on stomach
Axial (transverse) plane)
Separating body vertically
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What is the plane from shoulder to hip diagonally called?
Oblique section
What is the median plane?
Sagittal cut right down the middle
What is the cut that goes vertically from head to feet between legs?
Sagittal plane
What is the coronal plane?
Horizontal plane from head to feet
separating toes from rest of foot
Superior/cranial?
Nearer to top of the head
Inferior or caudal?
Further from midline/median plane
Proximal?
Nearer to attachment of limb to the body
Internal?
Nearer to the centre of the body/organ
Dorsal?
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)
How you describe right a left?
According to the patient in anatomical position
Anterior surface of wrist is called?
Volar