Anatomical Position
What is the standard position of the body used for reference in anatomy?
What is anatomical position?
What term means "toward the front of the body"?
What is anterior?
Which plane divides the body into top and bottom halves?
What is the transverse plane?
Which cavity contains the brain?
What is the cranial cavity?
Which region is directly below the belly button?
What is the hypogastric region?
In anatomical position, where are the palms facing?
What is forward?
If your nose is closer to the midline than your ears, it is considered…?
What is medial?
Which plane divides the body into equal left and right halves?
What is the mid-sagittal plane?
The spinal cord is found in which cavity?
What is the vertebral (spinal) cavity?
Which quadrant contains the appendix?
What is the right lower quadrant (RLQ)?
True or False: The body can be lying down and still be in anatomical position.
What is true?
Your toes are ______ to your knee.
What is distal?
This plane is used when viewing brain hemispheres.
What is the sagittal plane?
What organ is housed in the pericardial cavity?
What is the heart?
What organs are found in the LUQ?
What are the stomach and spleen?
A student is lying on their side with their arms crossed. Why can’t we use this position to describe where their organs are?
What is because it’s not the anatomical position? In anatomy, the body must be standing up, facing forward, with arms at the sides and palms facing forward so everyone describes body parts the same way.
If a surgeon makes an incision through skin and muscle to reach the liver, which directional terms describe the path taken?
What are superficial to deep?
If a doctor wants to see both lungs side-by-side in one image, which body plane should the scan use?
What is the frontal (coronal) plane?
The diaphragm separates which two major body cavities?
What are the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities?
Which abdominal region is located to the right of the epigastric region and contains part of the liver?
What is the right hypochondriac region?
Describe the full anatomical position in detail.
What is standing upright, facing forward, arms at sides, palms forward, feet flat?
Compare the heart and stomach using two directional terms.
What is "the heart is superior and medial to the stomach"?
Describe the difference between sagittal, mid-sagittal, and para-sagittal planes.
What is: sagittal divides left/right, mid-sagittal is equal halves, para-sagittal is unequal halves?
Name all cavities in the dorsal and ventral cavity systems.
What are: Dorsal = cranial and vertebral; Ventral = thoracic and abdominopelvic (which includes abdominal and pelvic)?
You're experiencing pain in your lower left abdomen. Your doctor says it could involve your descending colon. Which region and quadrant would that pain likely correspond to?
What are the left inguinal (iliac) region and the left lower quadrant (LLQ)?