Directional Terms
Body Planes
Abdominal Region
Regions of the Arm
Regions of the Leg
100
This means above something in the body.
What is superior?
100
This means making a cut right down the middle of the body, dividing the body into a right and a left.
What is midsaggital?
100
This region contains your bellybutton.
What is the umbilical region?
100
Another word for hip.
What is coxal?
200
This means away from the medial line of the body.
What is transverse?
200
This is when you cut a person into a superior and inferior region.
What is transverse?
200
The upper/ superior regions that are lateral to the mid-line are called this.
What is the Hypochondriac Regions?
200
This means wrist.
What is carpals?
200
This means foot.
What is pedal?
300
This is the farthest point away from an appendage's attachments point to the body.
What is distal?
300
This just simply means that the you are dividing the body into a right and left and they do not have to be proportional.
What is saggital?
300
The lateral regions to the umbilical region is called this.
What is Lumbar Regions?
300
Area in front of the elbow.
What is antecubital?
300
The ankle or the bones that make up the ankle.
What is tarsals?
400
This is when something is on the surface or on the skin.
What is superficial?
400
This is when you divide the body into a anterior and posterior regions.
What is coronal/ frontal?
400
These regions are named due to the hip bones that are present.
What is the Iliac (Iliac Fossa) Regions?
400
The elbow.
What is cubital?
400
The region involving the knee cap.
What is patellar?
500
The point closest to where an appendage attaches to the main body cavity.
What is proximal?
500
The three different view you can look at a body are called these.
What is body planes?
500
There are the medial regions of the superior and inferior rows.
What is epigastric and hypogastric regions?
500
The point of attachment of the shoulder and arm to the main body cavity.
What is acromial?
500
The area behind the knee.
What is popliteal?
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