Intro to Human Anatomy

Question 1

What is Gross Anatomy?

Answer 1

the study of structure visible to the unaided eye.

Question 2

What are the different ways that gross anatomy can be approached?

Answer 2

Regionally
systemically
or Surface (external landmarks)

Question 3

What is Microscopic anatomy?

Answer 3

the study of structures that cannot be seen without a microscope

Question 4

What does Cytology do?

Answer 4

analyze the structure of individual cells

Question 5

What does histology do?

Answer 5

anlalyze the structure of tissues and organs

Question 6

What is the hierarchy of structural organization?

Answer 6

Chemical, cellular, tissue, organs, organ system, organism

Question 7

What is anatomical position?

Answer 7

Standing erect, feet together, and eyes forward, palms face anteriorly with thumbs pointed away from body

Question 8

When we say right and left, from what point of view is that?

Answer 8

from the patient or cadaver’s point of view

Question 9

What is the Axial region?

Answer 9

the head, neck, and trunk (thorax and abdomen)

Question 10

What is the appendicular region

Answer 10

The upper and lower limbs

Question 11

Superior/inferior

Answer 11

above/below

Question 12

Anterior/posterior

Answer 12

front/back

Question 13

Cranial/caudal

Answer 13

towards/away from the head

Question 14

Medial/lateral

Answer 14

middle/outwards

Question 15

Superficial/deep

Answer 15

referring to skin level

Question 16

proximal/distal

Answer 16

close/far away

Question 17

Frontal plane

Answer 17

divides body into dorsal/ventral parts

-sometimes called the coronal plane

Question 18

Transverse plane

Answer 18

cross sections: divides the body into cranial and caudal parts

Question 19

sagittal plane

Answer 19

divides body into right and left

-can be median (down the center) or para (off center)

Question 20

oblique plane

Answer 20

diagonal cuts

Question 21

What are body cavities?

Answer 21

spaces that hold organs or fluid

Question 22

What is the function of body cavities?

Answer 22

to protect and support organs yet permit changes in size, shape, and movement of body organs

Question 23

What lines most body cavities?

Answer 23

membranes

Question 24

What are the dorsal body cavities?

Answer 24

Cranial and vertebral

Question 25

What are the ventral body cavities?

Answer 25

Thoracic: further separated into Pleural (lungs) and Pericardial (heart)
Abdominopelvic (Peritoneal): Abodminal (liver, stomach, small and large intestines) and Pelvic (bladder, rectum, uterus, ovaries, seminal vesicles, and prostate

Question 26

What are the Serous cavities

Answer 26

Cavities lined with a serous membrane.

-Does not contain air, has lubricating fluid

Question 27

What are the Visceral and parietal serous membranes?

Answer 27

Visceral lines the inner part

Parietal lines the outer part

Question 28

What are the abdominopelvic quadrants

Answer 28

just a cross on the cadaver or patient that separates the abdominal area into four parts: left and right upper and lower
-both planes go through the navel

Question 29

How many abdominal regions are there?

Answer 29

9- L and R hypochondriac, L and R Lumbar, L and R iliac, epigastric, hypogastric, and umbilical

Question 30

how are the abdominal regions determined?

Answer 30

two vertical lines and two horizontal lines