Planes & Directions
These intersecting lines divide the body into distinct quadrants.
What are planes
These are found in the extremities and tend to be a bit lengthy
what are long bones
I'm an involuntary muscle responsible for pumping your blood.
What is cardiac muscle
I'm always in motion until my dying day
what is blood
Your excited and gasp. Your lungs expand and pull air in. This is the process that I am.
What is inhalation
This plane divides the body into equal left and right sides.
What is Midsagittal
Made up of layers these bones make up the cranium, ribs, scapulae and sternum.
What are flat bones.
Responsible for your ability to move, I'm comprised of more than 600 separate components making up 1/3 of your body weight.
What is Skeletal muscle.
I'm the upper right portion of your heart and receive venous blood from returning from the body's tissues
what is right atrium
The right one has three lobes but the heart made the left only have two lobes.
What are lungs
This horizontal plane bisects the body at waste level.
What is Transverse plane
Talkers get the best workout of this bone.
What is mandible
I'm the ultimate of the nervous system. The brain and spinal cord are my two main components.
What is central nervous system.
I'm the largest of blood vessels and carry oxygenated blood away from the heart
what are arteries
I'm a tiny air sack short and stout. Without me you'll pass out.
what are alveoli
This directional term means toward the head or upper part of the body.
What is superior
these 12 pairs of bones provide protection to the organs in the thoracic cavity. Also a tasty dinner.
what are ribs
There are 12 of us and we are responsible for sensory impulses and voluntary muscular movement
What are cranial nerves
Although I'm part of the blood, I'm comprised of 91% water.
What is plasma
I keep your guts in your stomach and your lungs in your chest. When I expand air comes in but when I contract air goes out.
What is the diaphragm
When referencing something closer to the body surface you might say it is this
What is superficial
Corresponding numbers are important so just how many are there. Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar, Sacral, Coccyx
what is 7,12,5,5,4
Blinking? Raising your eyebrow? I made you do that. What am I?
what is temporal nerve
I'm responsible for your ability to not stay sick all the time because I fight off infections. Some call me the white blood cell but my technical term is this.
What are Leukocytes
When you get choked you say it went down the wrong pipe. I'm that wrong pipe.
What is the trachea.