Regional Terms
What is the anatomical term for the armpit region?
What is axillary?
This term means "towards the front" of the body.
What is anterior?
This plane divides the body into UNEQUAL left and right parts.
What is sagittal?
This body system transports nutrients, gases, and wastes through the body.
What is the circulatory or cardiovascular system?
This term means "towards the head."
What is superior?
What is the term for the thigh region?
What is femoral?
What is the term for "closer to the midline" of the body?
What is medial?
This plane divides the body into superior and inferior parts.
What is transverse?
This system is responsible for O2 and CO2 exchange between blood and body tissues.
What is the respiratory system?
The anatomical term for the chest region.
What is thoracic?
This term refers to the area begin the knee.
What is popliteal?
The term for "further from the point of attachment" to the trunk of the body.
What is distal?
This plane divides the body into anterior and posterior parts.
What is coronal or frontal?
This system controls the body's responses to changes in the internal and external environment.
What is the nervous system?
This organ is responsible for pumping blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
What is the anatomical term for the wrist region?
What is carpal?
The term that describes a position toward the back of the body?
What is posterior or dorsal?
This plane divides the body into exactly equal left and right halves.
What is median or mid-sagittal?
This system is the first line of immune defense against pathogens and regulates your body temperature?
What is the integumentary system?
This regional term refers to the "lower back"
What is lumbar?
What is the anatomical term for the back of the head?
This term describes a position above another part of the body.
What is superior?
In what plane would a cross-section of the brain appear as a horizontal slice?
What is the transverse plane?
This system is involved in producing hormones.
What is the endocrine system?
Which system involves the removal of liquid waste from the body?
What is the excretory or urinary system?