positions

Question 1

What is the Supine or Recumbent Postition?

Answer 1

is on the back, face up

Question 2

What is the Prone position?

Answer 2

is on the belly, face down

Question 3

What is the lateral recumbent position?

Answer 3

laying on either right or left side

Question 4

Superior

Answer 4

means toward the head

Question 5

What is inferior mean?

Answer 5

toward the feet

Question 6

what term means superior

Answer 6

cephalic

Question 7

what does the term caudal mean

Answer 7

inferior

Question 8

which plane divides the body vertically into anterior (front) and posterior (back) planes?

Answer 8

frontal or coronal plane

Question 9

what planes goes through the exact median of the body; dividing it into two near mirror images?

Answer 9

midsagittal plane

Question 10

what plane divides the body into vertically, but into right or left parts?

Answer 10

sagittal plane

Question 11

what plane divides the body horizontally into upper (superior) and lower (inferior) parts

Answer 11

transverse or cross sectional plane

Question 12

what portion is the head, neck, torso or trunk?

Answer 12

Axial position

Question 13

What portion includes the appendages of the body, or extremities (limbs)?

Answer 13

appendicular portion