Body Part Names
Body Planes/Positions
Body Cavities
Abdominal Quadrants/Regions
Directional Terminology
100
Medical term for neck.
What is cervical?
100
Divides the body into a right and left portion.
What is sagittal plane?
100
Cavity containing the brain.
What is cranial?
100

The top middle abdominal quadrant

What is the epigastric region?

100
The skin is _______ to the muscles.
What is superficial?
200

Medical term for the back of the knee

What is the popliteal?

200
Position w/ palms facing down.
What is supine?
200
Body cavity containing the heart and lungs.
What is thoracic?
200

Quadrant where the left ureter is found

What is the left lower quadrant?

200
Means "distant from the origin".
What is distal?
300
Medical term for buttock.
What is gluteal?
300

Divides the body into anterior and posterior sections

What is coronal?

300

Cavity inferior to the diaphragm.

What is abdominopelvic?

300

Quadrant where the liver is found

What is the right upper quadrant?

300
The nose is ________ to the lips.
What is superior?
400

Medical term for the forearm

What is the antebrachial?

400

Divides the body into equal left and right halves.

What is midsagittal?

400

The ventral body cavities are:

What is the thoracic cavity,pericardial cavity, abdominal cavity,pelvic cavity?

400

Region where the appendix is found

What is the right iliac region?

400
The breastbone, or sternum, is _________ to the heart.
What is anterior?
500
Medical term for elbow.
What is olecranal?
500

Position with palms facing upward

What is prone?

500
The 2 major closed cavities are:
What is the dorsal and ventral cavities?
500

region where the pancreas is found

What is the left hypochondriac region?

500

The elbow is _____________ to the wrist.

What is proximal?

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