Anatomical Position
In the anatomical position, the radius is ______________ to the ulna
What is lateral?
Nearer to the point of attachment or the trunk of the body.
What is proximal?
An imaginary two-dimensional surface that passes through the body.
What is a plane?
When this flat carpal bone is broken it is commonly referred to as a Colles fracture?
What is the scaphoid?
All of the bones of the upper and lower limbs.
What is the appendicular skeleton?
Flat bone anterior to the heart.
What is the sternum?
Inferior, or this term, describes a position below or lower than another part of the body proper.
What is caudal?
Often referred to as a coronal plane.
What is the frontal plane?
A synonym of ossification.
What is osteogenesis?
A small hook-like structure on the lateral edge of the superior anterior portion of the scapula
What is the coracoid process?
Toward the head end of the body
What is superior or cranial?
This long bone articulates with and immediately distal to the femur.
What is the tibia?
The plane that divides the body or an organ vertically into right and left sides.
What is the saggital plane?
The 2 embryonic patterns of bone formation.
What are Intramembranous and Endochondral Ossification?
A deep groove on the humerus that separates the greater tubercle from the lesser tubercle.
What is the intertubercular groove?
Position that describes a face-down orientation.
What is prone?
This is a more precise term that means “the back of the head.”
What is occipital?
An MRI scanner would have to move in this direction to to produce sequential images of the body in the frontal plane.
What is from top to bottom?
The first stage in Intramembranous Ossification; mesenchymal cells differentiate, osteogenic cells form into osteoblasts and the osteoblasts begin to cluster.
What is the Development of the Ossification Centre?
The prominence, at its upper and lateral part, gives attachment to the tendon of the biceps femoris and to the lateral collateral ligament.
What is the head of the fibula?
Patellar tendinopathy is a common condition in sports. It may occur at any location of the patellar tendon, but the most commonly affected area is this aspect of the patella.
What is inferior?
Lowest part of the spinal column, distal to the sacrum.
What is the coccyx?
To make a banana split, you halve a banana into two long, thin, right and left sides along this plane.
What is (mid) Saggital?
A dense layer of vascular connective tissue enveloping the bones except at the surfaces of the joints.
What is periosteum?
A ridge of roughened surface on the posterior surface of the shaft of the femur.
What is the linea aspera?