Where Is It Located? Flashcards
Locating Anatomy According To Position In The Body
what are horizontal sections?
Rostral slices of the brain that are cut in a horizontal plane, that is, cut parallel to the horizon when the subject is in an upright position
What would you call anatomy close to the knee?
genuflect
What would you call anatomy close to the bottom?
posterior
What would you call anatomy close to the sacrum (tail-end)?
Caudal
What would you call a plane cutting around the head and body as if creating a halo?
coronal
What do you call a plane closer to the middle of the body?
medial
What would you call a plane cutting the side?
sagittal
What would you call a view of structures on its side?
lateral
What so you consider structures on the same side?
ipsilateral
What do you call structures on the opposite side?
contralateral
What would you call structures close together?
proximal
What would you call structures away from each other?
distal
What would you call structures close to the back?
dorsal
What would you call structures close to the belly?
ventral
What would you call structures positioned above other structures?
superior
What would you call structures below other structures?
inferior
What would you call structures seen from the top?
axial
what are sagittal sections?
slices of the brain that are cut parallel to the vertical plane that divifdsbthe brain into left and right halves
what is a midsagittal section?
a section that is cut from the very midline of the brain, into a left and right side
what are cross sections?
sections that are cut at right angles to the basis of any long narrow structure, such as at right angles to the long axis of the spinal cord
