Planes of Motions/Directional Terms
The plane that divides the body into left/right sides
What is the Sagittal Plane?
This biological mechanism keeps the body stable by reversing a change, like shivering to warm up when you are freezing.
What is a negative feedback loop?
The origins are the manubrium and clavicle; the insertion is the mastoid process.
What is the Sternocleidomastoid?
The agonist muscle during knee flexion.
What is the Hamstring (Biceps Femoris)?
The study of body structure - how the parts are built and organized
What is Anatomy?
This term means to be further away from the midline.
What is lateral?
This type of loop accelerates or intensifies a process, such as platelets sticking together to rapidly form a blood clot during injury.
What is a positive feedback loop?
This muscle helps in the inversion of the foot and prime mover for dorsiflexion.
What is the Tibialis Anterior?
The antagonist muscle during ankle dorsiflexion.
What is the Gastrocnemius OR Soleus?
These are the overall cavities in the body.
What are the dorsal and ventral cavities?
Jumping Jacks happen in this plane.
What is the Frontal Plane?
This part of the loop detects the change in environment.
What is the stimulus?
Structure of a body part directly determines what it can do.
What is the Principle of Complementarity?
The antagonist muscle during elbow flexion.
What is the Triceps Brachii?
There are two terms that mean moving towards the midline.
What is late medially and adduction?
Physicians place their patients in this position to do lower back surgery.
What is the prone position?
In a negative feedback loop, this organ acts as the control center that senses a fever and signals the body to start sweating
What is the brain?
The Triceps Brachii is responsible for this function.
What is Elbow Extension?
The Gluteus Medius is the agonist muscle of this movement.
What is Hip Abduction?
The place where the Annabelle doll was located by Mr. Ernesto.
What is Massachusetts?
This directional term describes the heart compared to the lungs?
What is medial?
This system secretes hormones that regulate growth and metabolism.
What is the Endocrine System?
My origin is the Anterior Inferior Iliac Spine and origin is the Patella.
What is the Rectus Femoris?
What is the Deltoid?
The neurological process where activating (contracting) a muscle on one side of the joint causes the opposing muscle to relax.
What is Reciprocal Inhibition?