Planes of the body
Divides into left and right positions
What is saggital or medial plane?
Term for head
What is cephalic?
Term meaning the chin
What is mental?
Term means abdomen
What is celiac?
Term meaning groin.
What is inguinal?
the back
What is the dorsal or dorsum?
point of shoulder
What is acromial?
palm
What is palmar?
back of knee
What is popliteal?
Divides body into anterior and posterior (front and back) sections.
What is frontal or coronal plane?
Term for eye
What is orbital?
Term meaning the back of your head.
What is occipital?
Term means breast.
What is mammary?
Term referring to reproductive organs.
What is Genital?
Area of your spine on your back
What is vertebral?
arm
What is brachial?
axillary
What is armpit?
knee
What is patellar?
Divides the body into superior and inferior portions.
What is transverse or horizontal plane?
Term for forehead
What is frontal?
Front of your neck
What is cervical?
Term refers to area in the center of your chest, the sternum.
What is sternal?
Term meaning hip.
What is coaxial?
Area between both of your shoulder blades on your back.
What is inter scapular?
front of elbow
What is anticubital?
fingers
What is digital?
leg
What is cural?
Another name for a plane that passes through the midline.
What is midsaggital plane?
Term which is limited to your face
What is facial?
Back of your neck.
What is nuchal?
Area around your breast.
What is pectoral?
Axial region containing the front and back of your neck.
What is cervical?
Lower back
What is lumbar?
elbow
What is cubital?
buttocks
What is gluteal?
sole of foot
What is plantar?
Plane that passes through to one side of the midline.
What is parasaggital?
Term meaning the cheek.
What is buccal?
Region containing the head, forehead, eye, cheek, chin, and face.
What is cephalic axial region?
Term meaning ribs.
What is costal?
Name of anterior axial region that contains abdomen, breast, sternum, breast, ribs, groin, reproductive organs and hip.
What is torso or thoracic?
Between hips
What is sacral?
forearm
What is antebrachium?
thigh
What is femoral?
foot
What is pedal?