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Basic Anatomy Flashcards

1
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Difference between Anatomy and Physiology?

A

Anatomy: Is to cut, and is the study of structure
physiology: Is the study of function

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What is anatomical position?

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Standing upright, feet shoulder length apart, head level and eyes facing forward, arms at side and palms face anterior, thumbs pointed LATERALLY

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3
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What is a coronal cut?

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Divides body into anterior and posterior parts

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4
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what is another word for coronal

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frontal

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5
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What is a sagittal plane?

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Divides body into left and right parts

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What is a midsagittall plane?

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When the sagittal plane divides the body in to perfectly symmetrical parts

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7
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whats another word for midsagittal?

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Median

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What is a transverse plane? and its other names?

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Divides body in to superior and inferior parts, horizontal, and axial.

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What is an oblique plane?

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Divides the body at an angle

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10
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quiz yourself on the directional terms. {anterior posterior, dorsal ventral, superior inferior, cranial caudal, medial lateral, superficial deep, proximal distal}

A

Use your own body to compare different structures with the terms

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What is the supine position?

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Lying on your back

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12
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What is the prone position?

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lying on your stomach

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13
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Where is your cephalic landmark?

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head

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14
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Where is your frontal landmark

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forehead

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15
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Where is your ocular landmark?

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eye

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16
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Where is your otic landmark?

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ear

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17
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Where is your mental landmark?

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chin

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18
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Where is your buccal landmark?

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Cheek

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19
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Where is your axillary landmark?

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armpit

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20
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where is your brachial landmark?

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bicep part of arm

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21
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Where is your antecubital landmark?

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front of your elbow

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22
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Where is your cervical landmark?

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neck

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23
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Where is your umbilical landmark?

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navel or bellybutton

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24
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Where is your antebrachial landmark

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forearm

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25
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where is your carpal landmark?

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wrist

26
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Where is your palmer landmark?

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Palm of hand

27
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Where is your manual landmark?

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hand

28
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Where is your pollex?

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thumb

29
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Where is your hallux?

A

big toe

30
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Where is your crural landmark?

A

lower leg

31
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Where is your femoral landmark?

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thigh

32
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Where is the inguinal landmark?

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groin

33
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Where is your digits?

A

fingers

34
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What is a phalanges?

A

fingers

35
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Where is your pedal landmark?

A

foot

36
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Where is your acromical landmark?

A

Shoulder

37
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Where is your dorsal landmark?

A

upper Back

38
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Where is your olecranal landmark?

A

back of elbow

39
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Where is your lumbar landmark?

A

lower back

40
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Where is the gluteal landmark?

A

buttocks

41
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Where is the popliteal landmark?

A

back of knee

42
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Where if your sural landmark?

A

the calf

43
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Where is your calcaneal landmark?

A

Heel of foot.

44
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What is the order of the structural organization of the body?

A

Chemical, organelles, cellular, tissues, organs, organ systems, organismal

45
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What are the 11 organ systems in the body?

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Integumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic, respiratory, digestive, urinary, reproductive.

46
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What are the four abdominopelvic quadrants?

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RUQ RLQ, LUQ, LLQ

47
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What 2 organs are found in the RUQ?

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Liver and gallbladder

48
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What organ is found in the LUQ?

A

stomach

49
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What organs are found in both the Lower quadrants?

A

Intestines and bladder

50
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What is uniquely found in the RLQ?

A

Appendix

51
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What are the nine abdominopelvic regions?

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Right hypochondriac region, Right lumbar region, right inguinal, epigastic region, umbilical region, hypogastic(pubic) region, left hypochondriac region, left lumbar region, left inguinal region.

52
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Professor Novak sperated the body cavities in to two groups what are they? clue:one is called an aspect

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Posterior aspect and ventral cavity

53
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What is in the posterior aspect?

A

Cranial cavity and vertebral canal

54
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What are the two parts of the ventral cavity?

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Thoracic and abdominopelvic

55
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What are the two parts of the abdominopelvic?

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Abdominal cavity and pelvic cavity

56
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What is in the thoracic cavity?

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pericardial cavity and pleural cavity, mediastinum

57
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What is the mediastinum?

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It is everything in the thoracic cavity besides the pleural cavity. pericardium, trachea, esophagus.

58
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What are the two serous membranes?

A

Visceral and parietal

59
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What does the visceral layer cover?

A

the organs

60
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What does the parietal layer cover?

A

the body wall(cavity)

61
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Where is the serous fluid and what does it do?

A

It is used for lubercation and reduces friction, and it is inbetween visceral and parietal layers.

62
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Where can you find Serous membranes?

A

Pericadium, pleura, peritoneum

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