Anatomy Basics
This is the study of body structure and shape.
What is Anatomy?
This term means toward the head or upper part of the body.
What is Superior?
This term identifies the wrist region.
What is Carpal?
This region is located in the center of the nine abdominal regions.
What is the Umbilical region?
This plane divides the body into anterior and posterior portions.
What is the Coronal/Frontal plane?
This body system protects deeper tissues.
What is the Integumentary system?
This is the study of how the body functions.
What is Physiology?
This term means toward the back of the body.
What is Posterior?
This term identifies the upper arm region.
What is Brachial?
This region is located in the upper middle of the nine abdominal regions.
What is the Epigastric region?
This plane divides the body into superior and inferior portions.
What is the Transverse plane?
This body system is the site of red blood cell formation.
What is the Skeletal system?
This type of anatomy studies structures too small to see with the naked eye.
Microscopic Anatomy
This term means closer to the point where a limb attaches to the trunk.
What is Proximal?
This term identifies the thigh region.
What is Femoral?
These two regions are located immediately to the left and right of the umbilical region.
What are the Lumbar regions?
This plane divides the body into equal right and left halves.
What is the Mid-Sagittal plane?
This body system maintains posture and produces heat.
What is the Muscular system?
Provide 3 examples of negative feedback loops in the human body.
What are Blood Sugar, Body Temperature, and Blood Pressure?
This term means farther from the body's midline.
What is Lateral?
This term identifies the region behind the knee.
What is Popliteal?
These paired regions are located in the lower left and lower right of the nine abdominal regions.
What are the Iliac/Inguinal regions?
This cavity contains the spinal cord.
What is the Vertebral/Spinal cavity?
This body system secretes regulatory hormones.
What is the Endocrine system?
Provide 3 examples of positive feedback loops in the human body.
What are Child Birth, Lactation, and Blood Clotting?
On a limb, this term describes a structure farther from its point of attachment.
What is Distal?
This anatomical term identifies the heel region.
What is Calcaneal?
Name the four abdominal quadrants.
What are RUQ, LUQ, RLQ, and LLQ?
This ventral body cavity is superior to the diaphragm and contains the lungs and heart.
What is the Thoracic cavity?
This feedback mechanism shuts off once the body's set point has been reached.
What is Negative feedback?