Chapter 1- Body Planes Flashcards
My wrist is _____ to my elbow.
distal/inferior
my shoulder is ______ to my elbow.
superior/proximal
the navel is ____ to the spine.
anterior
the breast bone is _____ to the shoulder socket.
anterior/medial
the skin is_____ to the heart and lungs.
superficial
the head is ____ to the neck.
superior
the mouth is ____ to the nose.
inferior
the spine is ____ to the breast bone.
posterior
the lungs are ____ to the rib cage.
deep
the fingers are ____ to the wrist.
inferior/ distal
the eyes are ____ to the to the nose.
lateral/superior
the ears are ____ to the mouth.
lateral/posterior
the ankles is ____ to the knee.
inferior/distal
the waist is ____ to the neck.
inferior
the heart is ____ to the rib cage.
deep
to scan an image of the brain from the anterior to the posterior side, you follow along a ____ plane.
coronal/frontal
to make an incision that transversely divides one vertebra from the next, you must be making a division between ____ and ____ portions.
inferior and superior
Van gogh was an artist who removed his ear; he must have made a ____ section to remove it from his head.
sagittal
the diaphragm rest beneath the lungs, making a _____ plane between thoracic and adominopelvic cavities on the ventral side of the body.
horizontal/transverse
the umbilical region is ____ to the epigastric region.
inferior
the left hypochondriac region is _____ to the epigastric region.
lateral
the thoracic cavity is _____ to the abdominopelvic cavity.
superior
the diaphragm is ____ to the thoracic cavity while it sits ____ to the abdominopelvic cavity
inferior, superior
the right upper quadrant is ____ to the right lower quadrant
superior
the left lower quadrant is ____ to the left upper quadrant.
inferior
