Planes
This plane divides the body into left and right halves.
What is the sagittal plane?
This movement bends a joint.
What is flexion?
This term means closer to the trunk of the body.
What is proximal?
This region refers to the neck.
What is the cervical region?
Show me flexion with your elbow.
Bend your elbow.
This plane separates the body into front and back.
What is the frontal (coronal) plane?
This movement straightens a joint.
What is extension?
This term means farther from the trunk.
What is distal?
This region refers to the armpit.
What is the axillary region?
Point to something distal to your shoulder.
Fingers, wrist, or elbow.
This plane cuts the body into top and bottom portions.
What is the transverse plane?
This movement takes a limb away from the body’s midline.
What is abduction?
This term means toward the head.
What is superior (cranial)?
This region is the kneecap area.
What is the patellar region?
Use your hand to demonstrate the sagittal plane.
Vertical line splitting left/right.
This plane runs vertically through the midline and makes equal halves.
What is the midsagittal (median) plane?
This movement brings a limb back toward the midline.
What is adduction?
This term means toward the back of the body.
What is posterior (dorsal)?
This region is the lower back.
What is the lumbar region?
Show abduction with your arm.
Arm lifted away from body sideways.
This is the name for a cut made at an angle, not straight across or straight up and down.
What is an oblique plane?
This movement describes making a circular motion with a limb.
What is circumduction?
This term describes something closer to the surface of the skin.
What is superficial?
This region refers to the big toe.
What is the hallux?
Point to a proximal part of your leg.
Thigh or hip.