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
Anterior surface of tongue?
ventral
What is described as plantar?
Inferior surface of foot
Ipsilateral?
Structure lies on same side of body as other structure or location it is being compared to
Contralateral?
Structure lies on opposite side of body to other structures it is being compared to
Description of decreasing the angle between bones at a joint? And it’s opposite?
Flexion
-Extension
What is abduction?
MOovement away from median plane
What is opposite of abduction?
Adduction
Movement towards median plane
Circumduction?
Circular motion at a joint
Eversion of foot?
Sole of foot rotates away from median plane such that the foot faces laterally
What is pronation?
Anterior surface of the forearm rotates such that the palm of the hand faces posteriorly
What position is the palm in anatomical position?
Supination
Adduction of thumb?
Adding thumb back to hand after abduction
Flexion of thumb?
Folding thumb across palm
Aponeurosis?
Flattened tendon
-Most commonly associated with flat muscles
