Planes
Horizontal plane that divides the body into a top half and bottom half.
What is Transverse plane?
Body parts on the front of the body.
What is Ventral or anterior?
Contains the brain.
What is Cranial?
Region above the stomach.
What is Epigastric?
The abdomen can be divided into 4 ___________.
What is Quadrants?
Plane that divides the body into exactly right and left sides.
What is Midsaggital plane?
Body parts close to the midline.
What is Medial?
Contains the esophagus, trachea, bronchi, lungs, and heart.
What is Thoracic cavity?
Region on the left side deep to the ribs.
What is Left hypochondriac?
What environmental factors are essential to life?
What are food, oxygen, water, pressure, and heat.
Plane that divides the body into a front half and back half.
What is Frontal Plane (or coronal plane)?
Body parts away from the midline.
What is lateral?
Cavity divided into two sections, upper and lower.
What is Abdominal cavity?
Region in the middle of the abdomen.
What is Umbilical?
Defining traits of living organisms.
What are growth, metabolism, responsiveness, movement, differentiation, and reproduction?
The area below the transverse plane is _____________.
What is Inferior?
Body parts on the back of the body.
What is Dorsal or posterior?
The cavity where the urinary bladder is located.
What is the pelvic cavity?
Region on the right side near the groin.
What is Right Iliac or Right Inguinal?
Levels of organization from smallest to largest.
What are atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, and organism?
Body parts above the transverse plane.
What is Superior?
Body parts close to the shoulder or hip joint.
What is Proximal?
This cavity contains the spinal cord
What is the vertebral canal?
Region below the stomach.
What is Hypogastric or pelvic?
The study of the functions of an organism’s anatomy
What is physiology?