Regions
Area between the upper arm and the chest wall
What is the axilla/axillary?
Protects and houses the spinal cord
What is the spinal cavity?
Divides the body into right and left sections
What is the sagittal plane?
Anatomical name / region for lower back?
What is lumbus or lumbar?
The phalange are _____ to the acromial?
What is distal?
Area referring to the shoulder
What is the acrominal?
General cavity ranging from chest to pelvic area
What is the ventral cavity?
Divides the body into front and back sections
What is the frontal plane?
Anatomical name / region for the sole of the foot?
What is planta or plantar?
The lumbus/lumbar is _____ to the mamma/mammary?
What is posterior?
What is the popliteus/popliteal?
Protects / houses vital organs
What is the thoracic cavity?
Divides the body into top and bottom sections
What is the transverse plane?
Anatomical name / region for the lower portion of the leg?
What is crus or crural?
The bucca/buccal is _____ to the sternum/sternal?
Area at the junction of the lower abdomen and thigh
What is the inguinal?
Protects/houses the heart
What is the pericardial cavity?
Which terms describe the upper and lower portions of the body?
What are superior and inferior?
Anatomical name / region for the heel?
What is calcaneus or calcaneal?
The femur/femoral is _____ to the axilla/axillary?
What is inferior?
Area referring to the back of the elbow
What is the olecranon/olecranial?
Cavities contained within the ventral cavity
What are the thoracic, pericardial, abdominal, and pelvic cavities?
Abdominopelvic may be accepted as an alternative to abdominal and pelvic.
Which terms describe the front and back portions of the body?
What are anterior (ventral) and posterior (dorsal)?
Anatomical name / region for the chest?
HINT: CHEST, not BREAST
What is thoracis or thoracic?
The cubital region is _____ to the antecubital region?
What is anterior?