Regions Detective
A watch or bracelet sits on this region.
What is carpal?
The opposite of superior.
What is Inferior?
A patient has belly pain. This is the region you’d name.
What is abdominal?
The ventral cavity has the thoracic cavity and this lower one.
What is abdominopelvic?
A student says the head is inferior to the chest. This is the correct term.
What is superior?
Shin splints cause pain in this region.
What is the crural?
The opposite of medial.
What is lateral?
A cut on the forearm sits nearer the wrist than the elbow. This direction term describes it relative to the elbow.
What is distal?
The diaphragm separates the thoracic cavity from this cavity.
What is the abdominal cavity?
A student says the sagittal plane divides the body into upper and lower sections. This plane actually does that.
What is the transverse plane?
A shoulder pad covers this region.
What is acromial?
The opposite of distal.
What is proximal?
A splinter hasn’t gone past the skin. It is this relative to the muscle.
What is superficial?
The dorsal cavity contains these two cavities.
What is the cranial and vertebral cavity?
Also accepted (brain and spinal cord)
A student says carpal means ankle. This is the correct term for the ankle, and carpal is this body part.
What is tarsal?
A black eye is an injury to this region.
What is orbital?
The opposite of posterior.
What is anterior?
To examine a patient’s gluteal and sural regions, you’d have them lie in this position.
What is prone?
The thoracic cavity contains which two cavities?
What are the pleural and pericardial cavities?
A student says the frontal plane divides the body into right and left. This plane does that, and the frontal plane divides front from back.
What is sagittal?
This back region lies over the sacrum, just above the gluteal region.
What is sacral?
The opposite of dorsal.
What is ventral?
An injury in the brachial region is described this way relative to the antebrachial region.
What is proximal?
The pelvic cavity holds the digestive, excretory, and what other tracts (organs)?
What are the reproductive tracts (organs)?
A student says, “The frontal region and the frontal plane are the same thing.” Correct them by naming the body part the frontal region covers and what the frontal plane does.
What are the forehead, and divides the body into front and back sections?