Lecture 2 Movement

Question 1

What is physiology?

Answer 1

The study of function

Question 2

What is gross anatomy?

Answer 2

Gross anatomy is the study of macro anatomy

Question 3

what is the atomical position?

Answer 3

Standing upright, parallel on the floor, head level and looking forward, arms at side, palms facing up and thumbs away from body

Question 4

What is degree are the body segments at?

Answer 4

0 degrees

Question 5

Axial skeleton

Answer 5

Head, neck, trunk, vertebrate column, thoracic cage

Question 6

Appendicular skeleton

Answer 6

upper and lower limbs

Question 7

What are the different body cavities?

Answer 7

Cranial, thoracic, abdominal cavity and pelvic cavity

Question 8

What does the cranial cavity house?

Answer 8

Houses brain (skull)

Question 9

What does the thoracic cavity house?

Answer 9

Heart and lungs

Question 10

What does the abdominal cavity house?

Answer 10

digestive viscera

Question 11

what does the pelvic cavity house

Answer 11

urinary bladder, reproductive organs and rectum

Question 12

define proximal

Answer 12

closer to the origin

Question 13

Define distal

Answer 13

further away

Question 14

Superior?

Answer 14

(cranial) near head

Question 15

Inferior?

Answer 15

(caudal) away from head to tail

Question 16

Uni lateral?

Answer 16

One side only

Question 17

Bilateral

Answer 17

Both sides

Question 18

ipsilateral

Answer 18

same side of body

Question 19

contralateral

Answer 19

different sides

Question 20

What is the sagittal plane?

Answer 20

divides the body into left and right, forward and backward of the body occur, on coronal axis
(dorsiflextion): up
(Plantar flexion): down

Question 21

What is the coronal plane?

Answer 21

The coronal plane on the sagittal axis divides the body into front and back: anterior and posterior parts - lateral body movements

i. e.
1) abduction
2) adduction
3) inversion
4) eversion
5) lateral flexion

Question 22

Define abduction?

Answer 22

Away -

Question 23

Adduction

Answer 23

bring back +

Question 24

What is the transverse plane?

Answer 24

divides the body into superior and inferior portions (horizontal movements occur when the body in the anatomical position) on the longitudinal axis
i.e. supination, pronation, medial and lateral rotation

Question 25

Supine?

Answer 25

The body is facing up

Question 26

Prone position?

Answer 26

the body is facing down

Question 27

Flexion?

Answer 27

Bring closer to body (fetal position)

Question 28

Extension

Answer 28

Away from the body