Anatomy Basics
What is the study of body structures?
What is, anatomy?
Toward the head or upper part of the body.
What is superior?
Away from the midline of body.
What is lateral?
Divides the body into left and right portions.
What is sagittal?
Contains the brain.
What is the cranial cavity?
What is the study of how the body functions.
What is physiology?
Toward the feet of lower part of the body.
Closer to the point of attachment.
What is Proximal?
Divides the body into equal left and right halves.
What is midsagittal?
Contains the spinal cord.
What is the vertebral or spinal cavity?
What is the smallest basic unit of life?
What is a cell?
Toward the front of the body.
What is anterior?
What is the distal?
Divides the body into front and back portions.
What is frontal/coronal?
Contains the internal reproductive organs.
What is the pelvic cavity?
This term means the study of disease.
What is pathology?
Toward the back of the body.
What is posterior?
Toward the surface of the body.
What is superficial?
Divides the body into upper and lower portions.
What is transverse?
Contains the heart and lungs.
What is the thoracic cavity?
This term means the study of tissues
What is histology?
Toward the midline of the body
What is medial?
Farther away from the body surface.
What is deep?
A sagittal plane that does not divide the body into equal halves.
What is parasagittal?
Contains most of the digestive organs.
What is the abdominal cavity?