*Anatomy - General Flashcards
Word for when patient is lying on their tummy flat?
Prone
Plane which cuts you vertically (one arm and leg in each halve)?
Sagittal plane (longitudinal)
Plane that slices you into anterior and posterior parts?
Coronal plane (frontal)
Plane which cuts you horizontally?
Axial (transverse) plane
Other name for inferior?
Caudal
Name for anterior and posterior surface of wrist?
Anterior = volar Posterior = dorsal
Name for anterior and posterior surface of hand?
A = palmar P = dorsal
Name for anterior and posterior surface of tongue?
A (top) = dorsal
P = ventral
Name for superior and inferior surface of foot?
S = dorsal I = Plantar
What is the word used to describe a single structure located at the median plane?
Midline
What is the name of a sagittal plane taken right in the midline?
Median (median sagittal) plane - paramedic if exactly parallel to the median plane
Opposite of ipsilateral?
Contralateral (structures lie on opposite sides of the body)
What is the name for decreasing the angle between the bones at a joint? Opposite?
Flexion
Extension
What is the name for movement away from the median plane? Opposite?
Abduction
Adduction
What is the name when the anterior surface of a limb rotates towards the median plane? Opposite (each has 2 names)
Internal/ medial rotation
External/ lateral rotation
What is the name for a circular motion at a joint?
Circumduction
What is the name for when the sole of the foot rotates away from the median plane?
Opposite?
Eversion
Inversion
What s the name for flexion at the ankle joint (as if walking up a hill)? Opposite?
Dorsiflexion
Plantar flexion
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?
Pronation
Supination
Semi-prone
Name for when thumb and pinky come together?
Opposite?
Opposition
Reposition
Name for when you spread your fingers out and opposite?
Abduction
Adduction
2 phrases that can be used to describe wiggling 3rd digit at the metacarpopharyngeal joint?
Lateral abduction
Medial abduction
Taking the thumb anteriorly away from the palm name?
Opposite?
Abduction
Adduction
Name for taking the thumb laterally away from, and in the corneal plane of, the palm?
Oppsoite
Extension
Flexion
Name for superior and inferior movement of the shoulders?
Elevation
Depression
Name for anterior movement and posterior movement of lower jaw?
Protrusion
Retrusion
Name for anterior movement and posterior movement of shoulder?
Protraciton
Retraction
What is the system that consists of the skin, nails, hair and exocrine glands and protects the body from various types of damage?
Integumentary system
What are the 4 basic tissue types?
Muscle
Epithelia (covers the external surface of the body and lines hollow structures)
Nerves
Connective tissue
What is an organ?
A group of tissues acting together to perform a specific function(s)
What are systems?
Collections of organs that have related functions and work together to carry out a common “goal”
What is the major lymphatic vessel which return lymph to large veins in the root of the neck?
Thoracic duct
What do CO2 and water combine to form?
Carbonic acid
Lactic acid is produce by muscles during heavy exercise
What systems of the body excrete waste products?
Respiratory
Renal
GI (cellular debris, ingestible foodstuffs, bacteria, commensals and pathogen, ingested drugs)
Lymphatics
What is the first line of protection against the external environment?
The skin (integumentary system)
What 2 systems of the body regulate its processes?
Nervous system (quick) and endocrine system (slow)
What body system are the ovaries, testis and pancreas all part of?
Endocrine system (secrete hormones into capillary blood)
