Directional
What is superior?
Anterior body trunk inferior to ribs.
What is abdominal?
Imaginary lines dividing the body.
What is a plane?
Made up of two subdivisions: cranial cavity & spinal cavity.
What is the dorsal body cavity?
To avoid confusion with all possible positions of the body.
What is anatomical position used for?
Close to the origin of the body part or point of attachment to the trunk.
What is proximal?
Curve of shoulder formed by large deltoid muscle.
What is deltoid?
A cut along the lengthwise, or longitudinal, plane of the body.
What is the sagittal section?
Large cavity made of the thoracic cavity & the abdominopelvic cavity.
What is the ventral body cavity?
The body's ability to maintain relatively stable internal conditions even though the outside world is continuously changing.
What is homeostasis?
Toward or at the body surface.
What is superficial?
Mouth region.
What is oral?
A cut along a lengthwise plane that divides the body into anterior and posterior parts.
What is the frontal section?
The large region of the ventral body cavity broken into 9 regions.
What is the abdominopelvic cavity?
The smallest level of structural organization in the human body.
What is an atom?
Away from the midline of the body.
What is lateral?
Navel or bellybutton region.
What is umbilical?
A cut along a horizontal plane, dividing the body into superior and inferior parts.
What is a transverse section?
House the eyes and present them in the anterior position.
What are orbital cavities?
The system responsible for covering the external region of the body.
What is the integumentary system?
Toward or at the backside of the body.
What is dorsal?
Thigh region.
What is femoral?
A cut down the median plane of the body and the right and left parts are equal in size.
What is a midsagittal section?
Medial to the eardrums, containing tiny bones that transmit sound vibrations.
What are middle ear cavities?
The system that produces chemicals, and acts much slower than other systems.
What is the endocrine system?