Basic Terms
Body Planes
Radiographic Terms
Compound Words of Direction
What the Heck?????
100
Lying down, a modifying term is needed to describe the surface on which the animal is lying.
What is recumbent or recumbency?
100
The plane that divides the body into equal right and left halves.
What is the median plane?
100
Nearer to the center of the body, relative to anther body part, or a location on a body part.
What is proximal?
100
Pertaining to the head and tail; directionally pertaining to coursing from the head to the tail.
What is craniocaudal (crani/o/caudal)?
100
Pertaining to the same side.
What is Ipsilateral?
200
Movement of a limb or part away from the median line or middle of the body.
What is Abduction?
200
This is another term used to describe median plane.
What is the midsagittal plane?
200
Farther from the center of the body, relative to another body part or location on a body part.
What is distal?
200
Directionally pertaining to coursing from the dorsum to the sole of the FOREfoot.
What is dorsopalmar (dors/o/palmar)?
200
The correct label for the overall penetration of the xray beam through a limb that was in a dorsopalmar direction (with the beam angled such that it was tangent to the limb [~45 degree angle], entering on the dorsal aspect and exiting on the palmar aspect.
What is dorsopalmar (or dorsopalmer) oblique (DPaO)?
300
Movement of a limb or part toward the median line or middle of the body.
What is Adduction?
300
These planes cane be thought of as accessory planes and are any planes, to the right or the left, that lie parallel to the median plane.
What are sagittal planes?
300
At an angel, or pertaining to an angel.
What is oblique?
300
Directionally pertainting to coursing from the sole to the dorsum of the FOREfoot.
What is palmarodorsal (palmar/o/dorsal)?
300
The abbreviation for anteroposterior.
What is AP?
400
Pertaining to the tail end of the body or denoting a position more toward the tail or rear of the body.
What is caudal?
400
The plane pertaining to the back area of a quadraped, or denoting position more toward the spine.
What is the dorsal plane?
400
The beam of the xray entering through the left lateral aspect of an animal and exiting on the medial aspect.
What is lateromedial (later/o/medial)?
400
Directionally pertaining to coursing from the sole to the dorsum of the HINDfoot.
What is plantarodorsal (plantar/o/dorsal)?
400
The abbreviation for dorsoventral.
What is DV?
500
Pertaining to or situated near the more proximal areas of the body or a structure; opposite of peripheral.
What is Central?
500
The plane that divides the trunk of the animal into CRANIAL and CAUDAL regions (much like a magician "saws a lady in half!").
What is the transverse plane?
500
A radiograph taken of an animal's chest, such that the beam of radiation penetrates from his back to the underside of his chest.
What is dorsoventral (dors/o/ventral)?
500
Directionally pertaining to coursing from the tail to the head.
What is caudocranial (caud/o/cranial)?
500
The abbreviation for Plantarodorsal.
What is PID?
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