What is the standard reference position where a person stands upright, faces forward, and holds their arms at their sides with palms facing forward?
What is anatomical position?
What type of muscle tissue is found only in the heart?
What is cardiac muscle?
What is the study of the structures of the body?
What is anatomy?
The sternum is on the _____ side of the body compared to the spine.
What is anterior?
The nose is _____ to the ears.
What is medial?
What are the two main divisions of the skeleton called?
What are the axial and appendicular skeletons?
What is the name of the plane that divides the body into equal left and right halves?
What is the median plane?
What type of muscle tissue is attached to bones and helps you move your body?
What is skeletal muscle?
What is the study of how the body and its parts work?
What is physiology?
The lumbar region is _____ to the cervical region.
What is inferior?
The elbow is _____ to the wrist.
What is proximal?
The skull, vertebral column, ribs, and sternum belong to which division of the skeleton?
What is the axial skeleton?
What body plane divides the body into front and back portions?
What is the coronal plane?
What type of muscle tissue is found in the walls of organs, such as the stomach and intestines?
What is smooth muscle?
What is the study of body movement?
What is kinesiology?
The shoulder blades are _____ to the rib cage.
What is posterior?
The muscles are _____ to the skin.
What is deep?
What are the five types of bones?
What are long, short, flat, irregular, and sesamoid bones?
What body plane divides the body into unequal left and right portions?
What is the sagittal plane?
What is the name for the muscle attachment anchored to a more immovable section of the skeleton, usually closer to the center of the body?
What is the origin?
What is the study of disease and conditions that affect the body?
What is pathology?
The shoulders are _____ to the hips.
What is superior?
A client has pain in both shoulders. The pain is described as _____.
What is bilateral?
What type of bone is the femur?
What is a long bone?
What body plane divides the body into upper and lower portions?
What is the transverse plane?
What is the name for the more mobile attachment of a muscle to bone, usually farther from the center of the body?
What is the insertion?
What is the study of the cause or origin of a disease or condition?
What is etiology?
The knees are _____ to the hips, and the neck is _____ to the chest.
What are inferior and superior?
A client has pain in the right shoulder and right hip. These locations are _____ to each other.
What is ipsilateral?
What type of bone is the patella?
What is a sesamoid bone?