Body Planes
Directional Terms
Body Cavities
Levels of organization
Other related terms
100

This body plane separates the body into upper and lower halves. 

transverse plane 

100

Moving from the heart to the lungs. 

What is lateral?

100

Two cavities that are a part of the dorsal cavity.

What are the cranial cavity and spinal cavity?

100

Groups of tissues form...


What are organs?

100

The body's attempt to maintain a normal environment. 

What is homeostasis?

200

The name of the body planes that separates into right and left sides. 

Midsagittal 

200
Points of origin that are closest to the torso.

What is proximal?

200

Muscle that separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominopelvic cavity. 

What is the diaphram?

200

Groups of cells together.

What are tissues?

200

The basic unit of living things. 

What is a cell?

300

Another name for the frontal plane. 

Coronal 

300

Directional terms within the transverse plane. 

What are superior and inferior?

300
Thoracic describes this part of the body.

What is the chest?

300

Organs grouped together forms this. 

What are organisms?

300

Describing the movement of food through the digestive system. 

What is physiology?

400

The frontal plane divides the body into front and back sides. 

frontal plane 

400
The elbow in relation to the shoulder. 

What is distal?

400

The abdominopelvic cavity is in this major cavity. 

What is the ventral cavity?

400
Means one cell. 

What is unicellular?

400
The position of the hands in anatomical position. 

What are palms forward?

500
Anterior and Posterior are directional terms within

frontal or coronal plane 

500

 Directional terms within the coronal plane. 

What is anterior and posterior?

500

UL, UR, LL, LR describes quadrants within this cavity. 

What is the abdominopelvic cavity?

500

Blood, muscle and fat are examples of this. 

What are tissues?
500
Body system that includes the lungs.

What is the respiratory system?

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