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Where Is It Located? Flashcards

Locating Anatomy According To Position In The Body

1
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what are horizontal sections?

A

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

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What would you call anatomy close to the knee?

A

genuflect

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What would you call anatomy close to the bottom?

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posterior

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What would you call anatomy close to the sacrum (tail-end)?

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Caudal

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What would you call a plane cutting around the head and body as if creating a halo?

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coronal

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What do you call a plane closer to the middle of the body?

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medial

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What would you call a plane cutting the side?

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sagittal

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What would you call a view of structures on its side?

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lateral

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What so you consider structures on the same side?

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ipsilateral

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What do you call structures on the opposite side?

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contralateral

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What would you call structures close together?

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proximal

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What would you call structures away from each other?

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distal

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What would you call structures close to the back?

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dorsal

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What would you call structures close to the belly?

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ventral

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What would you call structures positioned above other structures?

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superior

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What would you call structures below other structures?

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inferior

17
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What would you call structures seen from the top?

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axial

18
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what are sagittal sections?

A

slices of the brain that are cut parallel to the vertical plane that divifdsbthe brain into left and right halves

19
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what is a midsagittal section?

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a section that is cut from the very midline of the brain, into a left and right side

20
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what are cross sections?

A

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

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