How do clinicians communicate? Flashcards
What are the 3 patient positions?
Patient seated, supine or prone
What is patient supine?
Lying on their back
What is patient prone?
Lying on their front
What are the 3 anatomical planes?
Sagittal (front ways in half), coronal (side ways in half) and axial
What do the terms anterior and posterior mean?
Anterior - nearer front of body
Posterior - nearer back of body
What terms describe nearer top of head, and nearer soles of feet?
Head - supernal/cranial
Feet - inferior/caudal
What do medial and lateral mean?
Medial - closer centre of body (midsagittal/median plane)
Lateral - further from median plane
How is distance from the limb attachment described?
Proximal - nearer attachment
Distal - further from attachment
What do the terms superficial and deep describe?
Superficial - nearer body surface
Deep - further from body surface
What does external and internal describe?
External - further from body centre/organ
Internal - nearer body centre/organ
What specific terms are used for the wrist?
Dorsal (posterior) and volar (anterior)
What specific terms are used for the hand?
Dorsal (posterior) and palmar (anterior)
What specific terms are used for the tongue?
Dorsal (posterior) and ventral (anterior)
What specific terms are used for the foot?
Dorsal (superior) and plantar (inferior)
What are the terms major and minor used for?
The relative comparison of structures that have the same name but one is bigger and one is smaller
What does unilateral mean?
The structure is normally found on one side of the body
What does bilateral mean?
Normally structures found in pairs (ie a left and a right one)
Where is a midline structure located?
Median plane
What is an ipsilateral structure?
A structure that lies on the same side of the body as the structure or location it is being compared to
What is a contralateral structure?
A structure that lies on the opposite side of the body as the structure or location it is being compared to
Superolateral vs superomedial (def)
s/l - nearer the top of head/further from median plane
s/m - nearer top of the head/closer to median plane
Inferomedial vs inferolateral (def)
i/m - nearer soles of feet/closer to median plane
I/m - nearer soles of feet/further from median plane
Anteroinferior vs anterosuperior (def)
a/I - nearer front of body/nearer soles of feet
a/s - nearer front of body/nearer top of head
Anterolateral vs posterolateral (def)
a/l - nearer front of body/further from median plane
p/l - nearer back of body/further from median plane