Directional Terms
This term means towards the head
What is superior?
The coronal or _____ plan divides the body into anterior and posterior sections.
What is frontal?
RUQ is an abbreviation of this quadrant.
What is Right Upper Quadrant?
This body cavity houses the brain.
What is the cranial cavity?
This is the body cavity labeled #1
What is the dorsal cavity
This term can be used in place of posterior but the majority of the time is used when referring to animals
What is dorsal?
The midsagittal or median plan divides the body into these sections.
What is right and left?
LLQ is an abbreviation of this quadrant.
What is Left Lower Quadrant?
This cavity is located in the chest and contains the esophagus, trachea, bronchi, lungs, heart, and large blood vessels.
What is the thoracic cavity?
This is body cavity labeled #9.
What is the abdominal cavity?
These two terms are often used in anatomy to describe the position of body parts relative to the trunk or point of origin.
What is proximal and distal?
These are imaginary lines drawn through the body at various parts to separate the body into sections.
What are body planes?
This abdominal region is located above the stomach.
This body cavity contains the stomach, small intestine, most of the large intestine, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, and spleen.
What is the abdominal cavity?
Label quadrant #3
What is the Right Lower Quadrant or RLQ?
Body parts close to the midline, or plane, are called this.
What is medial?
A horizontal plane that divides the body into superior and inferior halves.
What is transverse plane?
What is hypogastric?
This cavity contains the most of the reproductive organs, the urinary bladder, and the last part of the large intestine.
What is the pelvic cavity?
Label the abdominal region #5.
What is the umbilical region?
Cranial is the directional term that can be used in place of this term that means located near the head.
What is superior?
A plane that passes through the breast, hip, and knee on only one side of the body.
What is parasagittal?
This right and left abdominal region is located near the large bones of the spinal cord.
What is lumbar?
The spinal cavity contains this.
What is the spinal cord?
Label the abdominal region #9.
What is the left iliac region?