NAVIGATING THE BODY
What is superior or cranial?
What are the bones of the shoulder complex?
What are the ischial tuberosities?
These are visible rows of bumps running down the center of the back.
What are spinous processes.
What is the mastoid process?
A structure on the arm or leg that is further away from the trunk.
What is distal?
The joint formed by the humerus and scapula.
What is the tibial tuberosity?
The region of the vertebral column that is capable of the most movement.
What is the cervical spine?
What is the submandibular fossa?
An action that moves the upper extremity horizontally away from the midline of the body.
What is horizontal abduction?
Anatomically speaking, this is the proper name for a "knuckle" joint.
What is the metacarpophalangeal joint?
What are the ilium, ischium, and pubis?
The bony landmark that helps you locate the inferior angle of the scapula.
What is T-7?
The bony landmark of the occiput that serves as an attachment site for several neck muscles.
What is the superior nuchal line?
A movement bringing the radius and ulna parallel to one another.
What is supination?
The carpal that be located just distal to the styloid process of the radius and felt upon adduction of the wrist.
What is the scaphoid?
What is the adductor tubercle?
The lamina groove is located between these two bony landmarks of the vertebrae.
What are the spinous and transverse processes?
What is the external occipital protuberance?
The plane of movement in which rotation occurs.
What is the transverse plane?
The single attachment between the axial and upper appendicular skeletons is this joint.
What is the sternoclavicular joint?
The head of the talus can be located between these two bony landmarks.
What are the medial malleolus and navicular tubercle?
Although the entire rib cage is deep to muscle tissue, this portion is easily accessible.
What are the sides of the trunk?
What are the SCM, base of the mandible, and trachea?