Terms of Direction
In reference to a biped, towards the front of the body.
What is Anterior?
Reference position in which the body is lying face down.
What is Prone?
What is Flexion?
What is Biology?
To increase the angle between the foot and the shin; moving in the direction of the sole of the foot.
What is Plantarflexion?
In reference to a biped, towards the feet or lower part of the body.
What is Inferior?
What is Anatomical Position?
To move one bone of a joint away from the midline of the body occurring in the frontal/coronal plane.
What is Abduction?
The study of human form, the study of structure; the science of the shape and structure of organisms and their parts.
What is Anatomy?
To externally rotate the forearm until the palm faces up
What is Supination?
Away from the midline of the body or median plane; meaning "side".
What is Lateral?
A longitudinal plane perpendicular to the z-axis of a body or object that divides the body and/or its parts into a front and back portions
What is the Frontal or Coronal Plane?
To turn one bone of a joint inward about its axis occurring the in the horizontal/transverse plane.
What is Internal Rotation?
The study of human movement; the study of muscular movement, especially the mechanics of human motion.
What is Kinesiology?
To move the scapulae downward
What is Depression?
In reference to an extremity, towards the body or point of attachment.
What is Proximal?
A plane across the body that is perpendicular to the longitudinal or y-axis of the body that divides the body into upper and lower sections
What is the Horizontal or Transverse Plane?
To turn one bone of a joint outward about its axis occurring the in the horizontal/transverse plane.
What is External Rotation?
The biological study of the functions of living organisms and their parts during exercise.
What is Exercise Physiology?
To move the upper arm/thigh away from the midline of the body in the horizontal or transverse plane.
What is Horizontal Abduction/Extension?
Situated on the same side of the body.
What is Ipsilateral?
The midline longitudinal plane perpendicular to the x-axis of a body that divides the body into right and left halves.
What is the Median or Midsagittal Plane?
To move one bone of a joint toward the midline of the body occurring in the frontal/coronal plane.
The study of the composition, properties and activity of substances and various elementary forms of matter.
What is Chemistry?
A circular motion of the combines motions of flexion, extension, abduction and adduction.
What is Circumduction?