Directional terms
Body Planes
Regional terms
Body Cavities
Misc.
100
This is another term used to describe the front of the body.
What is ventral?
100
This is the plane which divides the body into top and bottom sections.
What a the transverse plane?
100
The uppermost medial region.
What is the epigastric region?
100
This body cavity is well protected by bones.
What is the dorsal cavity?
100
This term applies when the body is maintaining stable conditions or equilibrium.
What is homeostasis?
200
In the limbs, this term describes the part closest to the attachment to the trunk.
What is proximal?
200
This is the plane which divides the body into left and right sections.
What is a sagittal plane?
200
The region that is directly inferior to the right lumbar region.
What is the right iliac region?
200
This cavity contains the brain.
What is the cranial cavity?
200
Anatomy at the macroscopic level.
What is Gross Anatomy?
300
The feet are the most ____________ part of the body.
What is inferior?
300
This is the plane seperates the body into anterior and posterior sections.
What is a frontal plane?
300

The lowermost medial region.

What is the pelvic region?

300
This ventral cavity contains the digestive organs.
What is the abdominal cavity?
300
This mouth cavity.
What is the buccal cavity?
400
The scapula are ____________ to the vertebral column.
What is lateral?
400
Nodding the head (as in "yes") occurs in this plane.
What is a sagittal plane?
400
The region where the belly button would be.
What is the umbilical region?
400
This part of the thoracic cavity contains the lungs.
What are the pleural cavities?
400
The study of anatomy from fetus to adult.
What is developmental anatomy?
500
A gunshot wound.
What killed Victim 2.
500
A CAT scan looks at the body in sections along this plane.
What is transverse?
500
Victim 2 had a bruise in the posterior pocket of his left knee. This pocket is referred to the...
What is the popliteal fossa?
500
The pericardial cavity is found within this part of the thoracic cavity.
What is the mediastinum?
500
The breaking down and changing of complex substances
What is Catabolism?
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