Body Planes
Splits the body into superior and inferior halves.
What is the transverse plane?
A term that means underneath or below.
What is superior?
This cavity is formed by the skull and protects the brain.
What is the cranial cavity?
The region that contains the belly button.
What is the umbilical region?
The son of Zeus and Leto and the twin brother of Artemis.
Who is Apollo?
Splits the body into the dorsal and ventral sides.
What is the coronal plane?
A term that means in front of.
What is anterior?
This cavity contains the viscera.
What is the abdominal cavity?
The region superior to the umbilical region.
What is the epigastric region?
The falcon-headed sun god of Egyptian mythology.
Who is Ra?
The only plane that splits your body into symmetrical halves.
What is the sagittal plane?
The location of the heart relative to the lungs.
What is medial?
The two major cavities of the body.
What are the dorsal and ventral cavities?
The two quadrants that contain the large and small intestines.
What are the left and right lower quadrants?
The war god of Norse mythology who lost his hand to chain down the wolf Fenrir
Who is Tyr?
Another name for the coronal plane.
What is the frontal plane?
The two directional terms that relate to distance.
What are proximal and distal?
The only cavity that comes in multiples.
What is the pleural cavity?
The regions located underneath the ribs
What are the left and right hypochondriac regions?
The starcrossed lovers of Chinese mythology who meet once a year on a bridge made out of magpies.
Who are Niulang and Zhinu?
A synonym for the sagittal plane
What is the median plane?
A synonym for dorsal in four legged animals.
What is superior?
The cavities that contain the small and large intestines.
What are the abdominal and pelvic cavities?
The region and quadrant that contains the appendix
What is the right iliac/inguinal region and right lower quadrant?
An Aztec goddess who was beheaded and dismembered by her brother. Her severed head was turned into the moon.
Who is Coyolxauhqui?