Anatomy vs. Physiology
This field of study focuses on structure of body parts.
What is anatomy?
Anatomy used for diagnosis or surgical procedures.
What is applied (clinical) anatomy?
In anatomical position, the palms are facing this direction.
What is forward (anterior)?
This plane divides the body into left and right portions.
What is the sagittal plane?
Toward the front of the body.
What is anterior or ventral?
This field of study focuses on the function of body parts.
What is physiology?
Anatomy that describes individual body systems.
What is descriptive (systemic) anatomy?
The skeleton consisting of the head, trunk, and spinal column.
What is the axial skeleton?
This plane divides the body into front and back portions.
What is the coronal (frontal) plane?
Toward the midline of the body.
What is medial?
The study of structural and functional changes caused by disease.
What is pathology?
Anatomy that studies structures not visible without magnification.
What is microscopic anatomy?
The skeleton consisting of upper and lower limbs.
What is the appendicular skeleton?
This plane divides the body into upper and lower halves.
What is the transverse plane?
Closer to the point of origin of a structure.
What is proximal?
This type of anatomy examines structures visible to the unaided eye.
What is gross anatomy?
Anatomy that focuses on surface features of the body.
What is surface (superficial) anatomy?
The axis that includes the brain and spinal cord.
What is the neuraxis?
A section that cuts the body into unequal left and right parts.
What is a parasagittal section?
Lying on the stomach.
What is prone?
This phrase summarizes the relationship between anatomy and physiology: “Different structure, different ___.”
What is function?
Anatomy that studies structural changes due to disease.
What is pathological anatomy?
The standard reference position used for describing anatomy.
What is anatomical position?
A brain image showing only one side of the head was cut in this plane.
What is the sagittal plane?
Structures on opposite sides of the body are described as this.
What is contralateral?