Locomotor - anatomical terminology

Question 1

What is a vertical cut straight down the middle producing equal halves of left and right?

Answer 1

Sagittal (legs), mid-sagittal or median

Question 2

What is a vertical cut straight down the middle producing unequal halves of left and right?

Answer 2

Para-sagittal, paramedian or sagittal

Question 3

What is a horizontal cut through the middle into cranial and caudal?

Answer 3

Transverse plane

Question 4

What is a horizontal but through entire body, splitting ventrally and dorsally?

Answer 4

Dorsal plane

Question 5

Where on leg does it change from cranial/caudal to dorsal/palmar

Answer 5

After the hock (think of palm)

Question 6

What are the terms for the forepaw and hindpaw?

Answer 6

Manus and pes respectively

Question 7

Where is the carpus/tarsus?

Answer 7

The carpus is the wrist, and the tarsus is the hock

Question 8

What is the central axis of species?

Answer 8

Typically between III and IV digits

Horses its III digit
Ruminants/pigs/dogs between II and IV

Count axial to abaxial

Question 9

What is axial to abaxial?

Answer 9

Abaxial away from centre and axial toward the centre.