Body Orientation: Body Regions Flashcards
Abdominal Cavity
abdominal region
Abdominopelvic region
Trunk, inferior to thoracic region
Ankle Region Description
- Subdivision of foot
- skin, muscles and tendons, nerves and vessels around distal ends of tibia and fibula and talus
Upper limb (distal) between elbow and wrist joints
Antebrachial region
Antebrachial region descriptions (2)
- subdivision of upper limb
- skin, muscles, nerves and vessels around radius and ulna
Forearm region aka
Antebrachial region
Anterior cervical region location
neck, anterior to sternocleidomastoid region
Anterior leg region description
- Subdivision of leg
- Includes anterior and lateral muscular compartments
- Anterior border of shaft of tibia (shin) is subcutaneous
- Skin, muscles, tendons, nerves, and vessels anterior to intermuscular septum of leg and interosseous membrane of leg
Region including external ear
auricular region
Axillary Region location (2)
- thoracic region (inferior to shoulder joint)
- between upper arm and lateral thoracic wall
back location
trunk (posterior)
between neck region and tip of coccyx
back description
formed by skin and subcutaneous tissue, muscles, vertebral column (inferior to cervical region, ribs, and spinal cord and meninges
upper limb (proximal) between glenohumeral (shoulder) and Elbow joints
brachial region
region of cheek
Buccal region
carpal region (2)
- wrist region
- subdivision of hand
cranial region (2)
- superior part of head
- region of cranial cavity
cubital region location
- upper limb
- anterior and posterior aspects of elbow
what is included in the cubital region
- Includes cubital fossa, a shallow triangular depression on anterior aspect of elbow
- Important structures related to cubital fossa include: median cubital vein, brachial artery and its primary branches (e.g., radial and ulnar arteries), median and radial nerves, and biceps brachii tendon
deltoid region
upper limbs (proximal end) aka shoulder
Includes: great (digit 1 or hallux), second (digit 2), third (digit 3), fourth (digit 4), and fifth or little (digit 5)
digits of foot
thumb (digit 1 or pollex), and index (digit 2), middle (digit 3), ring (digit 4), and little (digit 5)
digits of hand