Planes
This plane splits an animal into left and right parts
What is the median plane?
A directional term that means 'toward the head'
What is cranial?
A directional term that means 'on the midline'
What is median?
A directional term meaning 'close or toward the median plane'
What is medial?
The position in which the dorsal aspect of the body (or any extremity) is uppermost
What is prone?
What is the sagittal plane?
A directional term that means 'away from the vertebral column or toward the midabdominal wall'
What is ventral?
The directional term that means 'away from the median plane'
What is lateral?
The act of turning toward a position where the dorsal aspect is uppermost
What is pronation?
A plane at right angles to the median plane and divides the body into cranial and caudal segments
What is the transverse plane?
A directional term that indicates proximity to the center of an anatomical structure
What is deep or internal?
A directional term that means 'relatively close to a given part', generally in reference to an extremity or limb
What is proximal?
The position in which the ventral aspect of the body (or palmar/plantar aspect of an extremity) is uppermost
What is supine?
A plane at right angles to both the median and transverse planes that splits the body into dorsal and ventral segments
What is the horizontal plane?
A directional term that means 'toward or beyond the backbone or vertebral column'
What is dorsal?
A directional term that refers to the proximity to the surface of the body
What is superficial or external?
A directional term that means 'farther from the vertebral column', generally in reference to an extremity or limb
What is distal?
The directional word for structures in the limb that are closer to its center axis
What is axial?
The directional term that describes the caudal surface hindlimb distal to the hock
What is plantar?