Regions
If you bump your forehead, you’ve hurt this region.
What is the frontal region?
This is the term for lying face up.
What is supine?
This region is the head.
What is Cephalic?
This term means toward the head, or “up.”
What is superior?
The cranial cavity contains this organ.
What is the brain?
This region is the chest.
What is the pectoral region?
This is the term for lying face down.
What is prone?
The buttocks are known by this term
What is the gluteal region?
The opposite of anterior, it means toward the back.
What is posterior?
The pleural cavity contains these organs.
What are the lungs?
Your thigh is called this.
What is femoral?
In this position, the body stands upright, faces forward, and has palms facing forward.
What is Anatomical Position?
This term means the back of the knee.
What is popiletal?
The elbow is this to the wrist, because it’s closer to where the limb attaches.
What is proximal?
The vertebral cavity holds this structure.
What is the spinal cord?
This region is the forearm, between the elbow and wrist.
What is Antebracchial?
This vertical plane divides the body into right and left sections.
What is the Sagittal plane?
The calf is called this.
What is the sural?
The ears are this to the eyes, meaning toward the side
What is Lateral?
This cavity in the thorax contains the heart.
What is the pericardial cavity?
A paramedic who hears “tarsal” should look at this part of the body, and it’s different from carpal.
What is the ankle?
This plane divides the body into upper and lower sections, and a vertical plane that splits front from back is the frontal plane.
What is the transverse plane?
Thoracic is the upper and middle back, while this region is the lower back.
What is lumbar?
If the tarsal region is below the femoral region, which direction means below or down?
What is inferior?
The two cavities that make up the abdominopelvic cavity.
What are the abdominal and pelvic cavities?