Positions

Question 1

The standard body position ?

Answer 1

anatomic position

Question 2

What does the anatomic position look like?

Answer 2

Upright, face-forward, with arms by the side and palms facing forward. The feet are parallel and slightly apart.

Question 3

Midsagittal Plane

Answer 3

Is used to describe the sagittal plane as it bisects the body vertically through the midline marked by the navel, dividing the body exactly in left and right side.

Question 4

Superior Portion

Answer 4

Right upper quarter of body

Question 5

Inferior Portion

Answer 5

Right lower quarter of body

Question 6

Transverse Plane

Answer 6

An imaginary line dividing the body in half. Superior upper and Inferior lower

Question 7

Anterior

Answer 7

toward the front of the body

Question 8

Posterior

Answer 8

toward the back of the body

Question 9

Medial

Answer 9

toward the midline of the body

Question 10

Lateral

Answer 10

toward the side of the body

Question 11

Proximal

Answer 11

Nearer to the point of attachment or to a given reference point

Question 12

Distal

Answer 12

farther from the point of attachment or from a given reference point

Question 13

Superior

Answer 13

above;
toward the head

Question 14

Inferior

Answer 14

below;
toward the lower end of the spine

Question 15

superficial

Answer 15

closer to the surface of the body

Question 16

deep

Answer 16

closer to the center of the body

Question 17

What is a cell?

Answer 17

The basic unit of all living things

Question 18

What is a tissue?

Answer 18

A group of similar cells performing a specific task. For example: muscle tissue produces movement.

Question 19

What are organs?

Answer 19

Two or more kinds of tissue that together perform special body functions. For example, skin is an organ composed of epithelial, connective tissue, and nervous tissue.

Question 20

What is a body “system”?

Answer 20

A group of organs that work together to perform a complex body function. For example, the nervous system is made up of the brain, spinal cord and nerves.

Question 21

Where is the cranial cavity?

Answer 21

A space inside the skull or cranium containing the brain.

Question 22

What is in the thoracic cavity?

Answer 22

heart, lungs, esophagus, trachea, bronchi, thymus

Question 23

What is in the abdominal cavity?

Answer 23

Lowest portion of the esophagus, the stomach, intestines, kidneys, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, and ureters.

Question 24

What is in the pelvic cavity?

Answer 24

Urinary bladder, certain reproductive organs, part of the large intestine, and the rectum.

Question 25

What are membranes?

Answer 25

the internal spaces of the organs and tubes that open to the outside and line body cavities.

Question 26

Name the five types of membranes?

Answer 26

Mucous membranes,
Serous membrane,
Synovial membrane,
Meninges
Cutaneous membrane

Question 27

What serous membrane covers the lungs?

Answer 27

pleura

Question 28

What serous membrane covers the heart?

Answer 28

pericardium

Question 29

What are meninges?

Answer 29

Connective tissue membranes found within the dorsal cavity and serve as a protective covering of the brain and spinal cord.

Question 30

Name a cutaneous membrane?

Answer 30

Skin. It forms the outer covering of the body.