Positional Anatomy
This term means away from the surface of the human body.
What is deep?
The anatomical term for nose.
What is nasal?
The anatomical term for spine.
This plane cuts the body into left and right sections.
What is median?
What is the heart to the ribcage?
Deep
This term means towards the head of the body.
What is superior?
The anterior part of the knee.
What is patellar?
The anatomical term for wrist.
What is carpal?
This plane cuts the body into superior and inferior sections.
What is transverse?
What is the head to the neck?
Superior
This term means toward the midline of the body.
What is medial?
The anatomical term for eyes.
The anatomical term for thigh.
What is femoral?
This plane cuts the body into anterior and posterior sections.
What is frontal (coronal)?
What is the knee to the ankle?
This positional term is the opposite of medial.
The anatomical term for the jaw.
What is mandibular?
The anatomical term for the posterior surface of the elbow.
What is olecranal?
What is the nose to the ears?
Medial
This term means the same as posterior on the human body.
What is dorsal?
The anatomical term for cheek (face).
What is buccal?
The anatomical term for the posterior surface of the knee.
What is popliteal?
What is the wrist to the elbow?
Distal