Chapter 1- Body Planes

Question 1

My wrist is _____ to my elbow.

Answer 1

distal/inferior

Question 2

my shoulder is ______ to my elbow.

Answer 2

superior/proximal

Question 3

the navel is ____ to the spine.

Answer 3

anterior

Question 4

the breast bone is _____ to the shoulder socket.

Answer 4

anterior/medial

Question 5

the skin is_____ to the heart and lungs.

Answer 5

superficial

Question 6

the head is ____ to the neck.

Answer 6

superior

Question 7

the mouth is ____ to the nose.

Answer 7

inferior

Question 8

the spine is ____ to the breast bone.

Answer 8

posterior

Question 9

the lungs are ____ to the rib cage.

Answer 9

deep

Question 10

the fingers are ____ to the wrist.

Answer 10

inferior/ distal

Question 11

the eyes are ____ to the to the nose.

Answer 11

lateral/superior

Question 12

the ears are ____ to the mouth.

Answer 12

lateral/posterior

Question 13

the ankles is ____ to the knee.

Answer 13

inferior/distal

Question 14

the waist is ____ to the neck.

Answer 14

inferior

Question 15

the heart is ____ to the rib cage.

Answer 15

deep

Question 16

to scan an image of the brain from the anterior to the posterior side, you follow along a ____ plane.

Answer 16

coronal/frontal

Question 17

to make an incision that transversely divides one vertebra from the next, you must be making a division between ____ and ____ portions.

Answer 17

inferior and superior

Question 18

Van gogh was an artist who removed his ear; he must have made a ____ section to remove it from his head.

Answer 18

sagittal

Question 19

the diaphragm rest beneath the lungs, making a _____ plane between thoracic and adominopelvic cavities on the ventral side of the body.

Answer 19

horizontal/transverse

Question 20

the umbilical region is ____ to the epigastric region.

Answer 20

inferior

Question 21

the left hypochondriac region is _____ to the epigastric region.

Answer 21

lateral

Question 22

the thoracic cavity is _____ to the abdominopelvic cavity.

Answer 22

superior

Question 23

the diaphragm is ____ to the thoracic cavity while it sits ____ to the abdominopelvic cavity

Answer 23

inferior, superior

Question 24

the right upper quadrant is ____ to the right lower quadrant

Answer 24

superior

Question 25

the left lower quadrant is ____ to the left upper quadrant.

Answer 25

inferior